Re: Printing

2003-08-01 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, When I want to do my first printing, I discovered that 'lpr' is not recognised. So I do a 'apt-get install lpr'. Then I do a 'lpr ' to try my luck. Only one line was printed at the top of the paper. The documentation mentioned that 'printcap' holds the database fo

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
n Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:08:39 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get none, and I'd be willing to bet that you save that spam and have to > examine at least the headers to make sure the program didn't make any > mistakes. And that you have to spend time updating the filter expressions.

Re: PHP 4.3?

2003-08-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:13:57PM +1200, Sam Minnee wrote: | Failing that, does someone have source of .debs for php4, php4-mysql, | etc etc? We all do, if we want them. --- /etc/apt/sources.list deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free --- $ apt-get source php4 -D

Re: Permission problem

2003-08-01 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
The problem is that the default setting of fstab to /mnt/drive_c and /mnt/drive_d is read-only. How to set it to read and exec? James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: >Hi, >After I have upgraded from woody to sid (seem i run "apt-get upgrade >gcc"), the "chmod" command cannot work normally. >When i am in wood

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-08-01 Thread David selby
David selby wrote: Hello mate, Ive been quiet for a couple of days, trying things & looking for the results next morning, found out a few things .. think I have cracked it. /etc/cron.d/anacron & /etc/anacrontab are not duplicate I found this by accident. /etc/cron.d/anacron is the syst

Re: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:12:00 -0400, David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You may like aptitude; it has a similar (though more familiar to me) > user interface to dselect, I use the following as ~/.aptitude/config, which gives me pretty much the look and feel of dselect with aptitude

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:35:45 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say you are >> > or not. We are exchanging info about DEbian/Linux, >> >> I guess you mean "Debian GNU/Linux". >> > I guess I meant what I said. It is Debian/Linu

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:58:53 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. Most of us > don't have the software to interpret them Are you not running debian, then? > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say you are o

Re: apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl?

2003-08-01 Thread Tom White
I also find it something of an advantage to have a fairly unified configuration; If you run mod-ssl, or use apache-ssl to also run your main site with the SSLDisable option set, you can easily make sure that the 95% of the configuration that should be identical doesn't have to be verified by a huma

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:17:28 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I do not dispute that they eliminate spam, at least with the current > generation of spamming technology. I merely claim that they are far > from invulnerable, in particular to false positives. Some people > care about th

Re: initscripts

2003-08-01 Thread Tom White
Not exactly elegant, but it should get the job done. By which I mean that I haven't tested it, but it looks convincing: #!/bin/sh MODPROBE=/sbin/modprobe case "$1" in stop) echo "Powering Down..."; $MODPROBE apm power_off=1; ;; *) echo "Usage: /

Re: Mozilla Firebird

2003-08-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake David Purton: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:48:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > 2. How can I make popup windows in new tabs rather than new windows by > > default? > > There is a tabbed browsing extension available from the firebird site > that gives you a fair bit more cont

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-test2 minor issues. Works well!!!

2003-08-01 Thread Tom White
I think that you need to have framebuffer support for your video card compiled into the kernel to get the penguin to show up after lilo loads the second-stage bootloader. I'm not sure what other options need to be set. With the 2.6.0-test1 kernel, I found an odd issue where my ethernet card (An R

Permission problem

2003-08-01 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, After I have upgraded from woody to sid (seem i run "apt-get upgrade gcc"), the "chmod" command cannot work normally. When i am in woody, after i edit the file /etc/fstab, and remove the read-only property in my two files, which are used in Windows XP system. That is the two files, /mnt/drive_c

Re: xv compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:34:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > xv is also listed at apt-get.org. Yeah, that's where I found the original source archive of 3.10a-26 that I have. > Marc, maybe you could list your xv w/ apt-get.org... Uh, no. I'm not about to get into *supporting* the thing. Some

Re: sshd stop working

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Nathan Poznick (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thus spake Micha Feigin: >> When I try to connect to sshd on my computer from either outside, or >> localhost I get the following error: >> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host >> How do I solve this? > > Check in /etc/

Re: xv compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:43, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:38:44PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > Has anyone gotten xv-3.10a to compile successfully under debian, with > > all patches applied? > > Of course. > > > I'm having trouble getting PNG support compiled in. > > Why?

Re: Mozilla Firebird

2003-08-01 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 07:48:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > 2. How can I make popup windows in new tabs rather than new windows by > default? There is a tabbed browsing extension available from the firebird site that gives you a fair bit more control over tabs. I think you can setup th

Re: xv compilation

2003-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:38:44PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Has anyone gotten xv-3.10a to compile successfully under debian, with > all patches applied? Of course. > I'm having trouble getting PNG support compiled in. Why? All the necessary patches are on the web site. > Everything comp

Re: exim to exim4 smarthost question

2003-08-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:06:41AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:57:23AM -0500, David wrote: | > I don't know if this is what you need, but here's my smarthost | > definition.. it was patched from my exim.conf by "exim2exim4" or | > whatever the automatic updater was calle

Re: /bin/bash: cvs: command not found

2003-08-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:57:54AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: [need to add a directory to the path for a cvs-over-ssh session] | Now I assume that's becuase /home/foo/local/bin/cvs is not in the path. | I tried setting path in .bash_profile (and .bashrc) on the remote | machine but they don't seem

debian booth at lwe

2003-08-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i saw a posting to svlug that debian is welcoming demo boxes at the booth ?? i'd be interested in lending a few 1U boxes for the booth, whom do i get in contact with ?? - you guys can play with it.. install whatever and see what it does etc - hopefully there'd be lots of debian

Mozilla Firebird

2003-08-01 Thread Sridhar M.A.
I have two questions about firebird: 1. How can I run run firebird in server mode like galeon -s? 2. How can I make popup windows in new tabs rather than new windows by default? Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. C'mon! political protest! sheesh. Where's that anarchist spirit? ;-) -- D

Re: exim to exim4 smarthost question

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Chambers
On 1 Aug 4:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > What would the exim4 equivilent of this? > > (in the Routers section) > > smarthost: > driver = domainlist > transport = remote_smtp > domains = aol.com:netscape.net:furworld.org > route_list = * smtp.comcast.net byname > > no_dialup: driv

2.4.18bf pcmcia conflicts with new security update

2003-08-01 Thread Jesse Meyer
Last night, a new version of the 2.4.18 boot floppy kernel came out - 2.4.18-5woody2. I use pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 precisely because it is the only stable debian kernel with a tulip_cb modules, which depends on 2.4.18-5woody1 (note the last number). Unfortunately, when the security update

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them > and I, for one, don't give a rip if you are who you say > you are or not. We are exchanging info about DEbian/Linux, > NOT Swiss bank account num

Question about SCSI IMMED flag in cdrecord!

2003-08-01 Thread Rthoreau
Hi fellow Debian users. I have been pulling my hair out the last three days because every time I tried to burn an ISO in cdrecord it locked my system solid. Had to do a hard reset. After pouring over the Man page, searched the net I solved my problem. I wasn't using the -immed flag when bur

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Pigeon
Well, this is interesting... I just received a "Sorry, Access Denied" from [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I wasn't aware of having sent him anything (see attachment). How come...? My mail filtering inserts a "Reply-To: " header into list mails, so I just hit 'r' and it automatically goes to the list. Turns

Printing

2003-08-01 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, When I want to do my first printing, I discovered that 'lpr' is not recognised. So I do a 'apt-get install lpr'. Then I do a 'lpr ' to try my luck. Only one line was printed at the top of the paper. The documentation mentioned that 'printcap' holds the database for printers. Looking

adding a truetype font to defoma

2003-08-01 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
how do i add a truetype font to defoma? i downloaded a set of ttf files and since i'm using defoma, i want to configure it add these new fonts. i searched around and found this message http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200211/msg04674.html but the response doesn't answer my que

Re: Film Editting

2003-08-01 Thread leroyljr
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:12:00PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > you can use avidemux (gui tool), mplayer/mencoder and transcode mplayer,mencoder and transcode are not video editors. He needs either avidemux (as you mentioned) or glav from mjpegtools. Note, however, that to use glav to edit the fil

Re: Wu-ftpd broken in Sid

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:29:26AM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: > I just did an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade on my SID box and got > this: > > Selecting previously deselected package wu-ftpd. > (Reading database ... 49867 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking wu-ft

Re: Can't read large files from CD

2003-08-01 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:04:04AM -0700, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > Hi, > I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to > copy large (>600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: > > cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error > > > In this ca

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Kent West
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello again, I am actually installing the old-stable version. (Potato). The reason for this is, I want to upgrade it to woody later once I have installed it. This way I would learn more about Debian. I did make a couple of other rescue floppy disks but got the same e

Wu-ftpd broken in Sid

2003-08-01 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi, I just did an apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade on my SID box and got this: Selecting previously deselected package wu-ftpd. (Reading database ... 49867 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wu-ftpd (from .../wu-ftpd_2.6.2-12_i386.deb) ... Setting up wu-ftpd (2.6.2-12) ...

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-08-01 Thread Warren Dodge
> i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes > it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb > char dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right > after hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn'

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-08-01 Thread Jason Chambers
On 31 Jul 23:03, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm just switching to IMAP, so I'll toss in a few observations. > > I decided to try Cyrus, mostly because it seemed mention more often > than others on the exim lists, and it was mentioned as integrating > very easily with exim. I've found that to be the cas

Opencms?

2003-08-01 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi, Does anyone know if OpenCMS (www.opencms.org) is going to be packaged for Debian? Or maybe it is already? I cannot find it... Pim - PingWings - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M: 06-28474259 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: www.pingwings.nl ---

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:02:18PM +, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Alan Connor wrote: > >That's how C-R programs work. The bug-track folks wouldn't even know it > >was operating. > > > > > Um.. He *is* "the bug-track folks", and he just said he can see it > operating. > > Thats 3 idiotic claim

Re: apt-get nightmare

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error. > > Removing gnome-control-center > dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 > > Any insight would be appreciated.

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:01:10 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of that 602 spam know how much got through? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/t# grep spamd * | grep identified | awk '{print $8}' | > grep\(\[567\] | wc -l > 22 Actually, I am wrong about this. This was still marked

Re: apt-get nightmare

2003-08-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error. > > Removing gnome-control-center > dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Try dpkg --force-all or apt-get -f remove. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

OT: how to send a keystroke to another program

2003-08-01 Thread Andrej Hocevar
Hello, I've been trying to figure out if there's a way to do this -- I'd like to write a program that would make another program behave as if a certain key was pressed, e.g. PgD. Thus I could implement something like moving down in a pager when I press a button on my mouse or something. As far as

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only be done > with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I put together. > There isn't ANY other approach that works. You're wrong. > There

USB keyboard

2003-08-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
For multiseat Debian I need a USB keyboard. Anybody use an USB keyboard that they like? Hugo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:18:23 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003 >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: >> > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The >> > domain name. >> > >> > Anyone mail

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:15:01 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:10:43 2003 >> >> Which is why, if you're careful, you'll want to doublecheck the >> messages marked as spam. >> > There are no messages marked as spam. Then you are using a su

Re: Is there a *console* screen capture

2003-08-01 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:58:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Please don't clutter your posts with pgp signatures. > Most of us don't have the software to interpret them $ apt-cache show gnupg Package: gnupg Priority: standard Section: utils Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replac

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:27:35AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > >For any small (read: DS3 or less), a PC based firewall will perform just as > >well as a hardware firewall. On the other hand, do you _want_ to be paged > >at > >4am because your PC based firewall ate a disk

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:30:27AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:03:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Oddly enough I'd argue that those are wasted on a router. :) > > My current router is a Debian Sid box on an old HP Spectra 486. It > handles DNS for my internal ne

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:53:19 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:49:26 2003 >> >> >> Colin Watson writes: >> > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating >> > the Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to >> >

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-08-01 Thread Ian Melnick
> So I then did this: > > # dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/nfs-kernel-server_1%3a1.0.3-1_i386.deb Worked like a charm! Thanks so much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:55:54 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you send mail directly to a person, off-list, in private, why not > respond to his challenge? In any decent MUA, you just have to hit 'r'. Why should I? I sent my message. They have made it clear they don't want

Re: cron bash date

2003-08-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030801 07:13]: > Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted > > it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February > > will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore,

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:55:54 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Colin Watson writes: >> > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating >> > the Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 22:06:42 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If you decide to go off channel and send a mail in private, why not > just reply to a resent request? As a matter of principle, I refuse to jump through these ridiculous hoops. > At least with tmda (and I gat

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello again, I am actually installing the old-stable version. (Potato). The reason for this is, I want to upgrade it to woody later once I have installed it. This way I would learn more about Debian. I did make a couple of other rescue floppy disks but got the same error. (I did get the co

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:46:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:04:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses on > > > their pass list. > > > > > > That's how C-R programs work. The bug-

apt-get nightmare

2003-08-01 Thread user list
I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error. Removing gnome-control-center dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Any insight would be appreciated. Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: sshd stop working

2003-08-01 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Micha Feigin: > When I try to connect to sshd on my computer from either outside, or > localhost I get the following error: > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > How do I solve this? Check in /etc/hosts.deny ...do you have ALL: PARANOID uncommented? If you d

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach David Fokkema (Fri 01 Aug 02003 at 10:06:42PM +0200): > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > If any mail comes to me from an email address or domain that isn't > > > on

sshd stop working

2003-08-01 Thread Micha Feigin
When I try to connect to sshd on my computer from either outside, or localhost I get the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host How do I solve this? thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread Toens Bueker
Ken McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Turbo Fredriksson has a good write-up at > http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html regarding Kerberos and > OpenLDAP. I'm working on a similiar project attempting to integrate > OpenLDAP, Kerberos and OpenAFS. IBM Germany has an interesting > project/pro

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:18:23AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The > > > domain name. > > > > > > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't ev

2.4.18-586tsc pcmcia troubles

2003-08-01 Thread ScruLoose
Hey all, I can't seem to get my pcmcia network cards working after an upgrade to the 2.4.18-586tsc kernel (from Debian kernel-image package). Under the 2.2.x-bf kernel, I had at least one card working fine with the pcnet_cs module. Other relevant-looking modules that were loaded at the time are 8

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Alan Connor wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 02:00:32 2003 Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to "challenges". If people don't want BTS mail, that's their problem; we don't have time to babysit that

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:13:25PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 01 August 2003 18:55, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > [...] > > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to > > > "challenges". > > > > Why? > > > > If you s

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:30:58PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > If any mail comes to me from an email address or domain that isn't > > on my pass list, it goes to /dev/null and an auto-response is sent > > to what

Linux Event + 2 Workshops on Debian GNU/Linux

2003-08-01 Thread Warren Norrix
Dear Debian GNU/Linux Users. IIT Mumbai, India, is conducting a workshop on GNU/Linux there will be 2 Workshops on Debian GNU/Linux. The workshops will be taken by me. If there is any one in Mumbai who would like to attend this event please mail me as soon as possible. The World Social Forum 20

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Kent West
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hi, I made the required floppy disksrescue/root/drivers etc.; However, when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something like this. Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times), Then, Loading linux and then it just reboots. Any thoughts? Thank

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:20:01 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: >> I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain >> name. >> >> Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was >> runnin

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:57:30 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If any mail comes to me from an email address or domain that isn't > on my pass list, it goes to /dev/null and an auto-response is sent > to whatever return address the sender supplied. > It asks them to re-send the mail

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My version of C-R is not a "spam-reduction system" it is an spam-elimination > system. Incidentally, what do you do about spam sent to mailing lists you are on? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. What good is make-believe if you don't

Re: /bin/bash: cvs: command not found

2003-08-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bill Moseley [Fri, Aug 01 2003, 11:57:54AM]: > I'm trying to do a cvs checkout from a remote machine running > > SSH Version 1.2.25 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. > > Say the user is "foo", and they have cvs installed locally: > >>which cvs > /home/foo/local/bin

Building a mail server

2003-08-01 Thread Warren Norrix
| maildirs | virtual domain support | imap | webmail | smtp auth | pop3 [snip] Try qmail I am pretty satisfied with it -- Regards, Warren Norrix. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://warren.freezope.com Online Linux Shop: http://www.cafeshops.com/norrix Six Sense: http://www.cafeshops.com/bonny_om -- T

Re: NVidia drivers, X troubles (Debian 3, linux 2.4.18)

2003-08-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Here is my main problem: I've downloaded and installed the NVidia > drivers/modules for the Asus video card I have in the AGP slot, but > when I reconfigure xserver-xfree86, choose the nvidia driver then > startx, I get a "EE: no device found" error. Have you tried "modprobe nvidia"? Any errors

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:30:27AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:03:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Oddly enough I'd argue that those are wasted on a router. :) > > My current router is a Debian Sid box on an old HP Spectra 486. It > handles DNS for my internal ne

Re: script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the > usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run > at every boot. > > Is there such a place in Debian? Put the file in /etc/init.d (copy /etc/init.d/skeleton if you need to; it s

Re: installing debian though compiling most everything.....

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Fromm
tripolar wrote: I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was impressed with several features- especially having everything run super fast compared to other distros. I am sure there is a simple answer to this though I must ask to get it :-) I would like to go back to debian th

Re: mozilla-mail: ctrl+shift+c doesn't work anymore

2003-08-01 Thread Andreas Fromm
David Corbin wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 06:01, Andreas Fromm wrote: Hi, does anybody know why on the new mozilla 1.4-2 mailreader the key combination Ctrl+Shift+c to mark a mailbox or newsgroup as read doesn't work anymore. On my old mozilla 1.0 (testing) it worked nicely but since I upg

Re: Netgear Wireless USB Adapter (MA111) on Debian Linux

2003-08-01 Thread Andrea Tasso
is it mandatory for you to use a usb one ? I have a pci netgear MA311 , that is working ok On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:10:14PM -0700 or thereabouts, S Yuval wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I've just purchased a wireless USB Ethernet adapter (Netgear Wireless USB > Adapter, MA11) and would like to use

Re: script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, August 01 at 3:02 PM EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the >usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run >at every boot. > >Is there such a place in Debian? 1)make a file /etc/init.d/rc.local there may b

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is the "user" of the C-R program that enters the bug-tracking addresses > (in this case) in their passlist. The C-R program is transparent to the > bug-track folks, in this case. Colin's point was that in his experience, users of C-R programs don't alw

Netgear Wireless USB Adapter (MA111) on Debian Linux

2003-08-01 Thread S Yuval
Hi Everybody,     I've just purchased a wireless USB Ethernet adapter (Netgear Wireless USB Adapter, MA11) and would like to use it on Debian Linux.  There is no mention of Linux support on the box and I know that historically Linux has been very USB-unfriendly.  However, I know that modern

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 01 August 2003 18:55, David Fokkema wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:48:36AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: [...] > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to > > "challenges". > > Why? > > If you send mail to a list and you get a challenge, sure, ignore > it. If a user of the m

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:38:15AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:22:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Wouldn't the DNS, DHCP, DHCP and Squid be on another box anyway? > > Optimally, yes, however if you're careful and you know what you're > doing, you can make an almost a

/bin/bash: cvs: command not found

2003-08-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying to do a cvs checkout from a remote machine running SSH Version 1.2.25 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. Say the user is "foo", and they have cvs installed locally: >which cvs /home/foo/local/bin/cvs $ cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/foo/local/cvsroot co somethi

script to run at boot

2003-08-01 Thread hashi
Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run at every boot. Is there such a place in Debian? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hi, I made the required floppy disksrescue/root/drivers etc.; However, when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something like this. Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times), Then, Loading linux and then it just reboots. Any thoughts? Thanks, Shashank At 03:11 PM

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:18:23AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003 > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. > > > > > > Anyone mailing me

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread David Fokkema
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:46:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Anyone with a C-R program would just put the bug-tracking addresses on > > > their pass list. > > > > > > > > > That's how C-R programs work. The bug-track folks wouldn't even know > > > it was operating. > > > > Speaking as one

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:15:16 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:38:10AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > I should have added that debian.org is on my pass list. The domain name. > > > > Anyone mailing me from any address there wouldn't even know I was running > > a C-R system. >

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 11:10:43 2003 > > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Connor wrote: > >=20 > > Spam is UCE (unsolicited commercial email) and stopping it can only be do= > ne > > with a Challenge-Response mail program, such as the one I put together. > > There isn't ANY other approach

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:55:48 2003 > > > On -6007-Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > What people mean when they say they are fed up with spam, is that they are > > fed up with SOME spam, but want to get the others. > > > > The

Re: User Mangment: LDAP, AFS, Kerberos

2003-08-01 Thread Ken McCord
Turbo Fredriksson has a good write-up at http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html regarding Kerberos and OpenLDAP. I'm working on a similiar project attempting to integrate OpenLDAP, Kerberos and OpenAFS. IBM Germany has an interesting project/product as well. Here's a pdf link to a product pr

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:49:26 2003 > > > Colin Watson writes: > > Yup. For example, I can guarantee you that the people operating the > > Debian bug tracking system don't always bother to respond to > > "challenges". > > And I can guarantee you that I will never respond to "challe

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-08-01 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:11:18AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 03:11:46 -0400 Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > These take an existing computer (Pentium 200 with 64MB RAM and 1GB > > > hard drive, some would argue it's hardly worth pulling from the > > > dumpster

Re: upgrade turned off lpd?

2003-08-01 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd > > restart will let it work again. > > On a debian system, the canonical command is (as root, of course): > > invoke-rc.d l

Can't read large files from CD

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hi, I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to copy large (>600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error In this case, it read 530MB of the file before giving me the error. Anybody have any ide

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 1 10:39:44 2003 > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:04:28AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:36:14AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > > Spam tends to be an automated, bulk emailing of addresses, but not > > > > all >

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