nameservers and resolv.conf(s): switching from charter cable to tdsdsl

2003-08-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
this afternoon I was looking through files on my system because when I added a new user, Pine wanted to give the user a chartermi.net domain even though I've changed everything (I thought) to tdS. In looking over my files I found a /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf and /var/lib/dhcpc/resolv

Re: nameservers and resolv.conf(s): switching from charter cable totds dsl

2003-08-04 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually, it was quite simple once I put two and two together. There is a /etc/dhcpc/config file, and it has lines to uncomment if you want to allow your nameservers, domainname, hostname, and other names set according to your isp's names. My nameservers are now changed. Only don't let it change yo

test please igore

2003-08-04 Thread Jake Johnson
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On Woody: (No) Sound with VIA 686a Southbridge, AC 97

2003-08-04 Thread Caidence
'ello, this is my first time to the list.  "Sorry" ahead of time if I step on any toes.   I've had this large tangle with getting my sound to work.  I know it works, I had it working before with support compiled into the kernel... but I recompiled the kernel, and forgot the working settings and did

mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-04 Thread Andrea Tasso
hi all. I am struggling with mondo backup, I can do backups to cd, but restoring and comparing both fail. Did someone succeeded with mondo ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:09:51PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 03:47, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:18, Greg Folkert wrote: > > --snip-- --snip-- --snip-- --and snip some more-- > > > > Please tell me that you didn't, in fact, just type that all out by

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:08:56PM +0200, vinz wrote: > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? Because that's a very bad idea. You really should be using SSH if you're going to be sending passwords anyway. Uninstall telnetd, get ssh, forg

Re: Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Incidentally, how much space are you dedicating to your Squid cache? I > know that this can't be assigned directly, so either the segment size, > or net use (du -s on cache) would be useful. Currently (offline) /var/spool/squid

Re: -ck patches and sound with skips

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Cristophe, you wrote : > I've applied the -ck patches to my 2.4.20 kernel > (lowlatency, preempt, O(1), rmap and other patches). > I can hear xmms skip when I click on something. > Priority of X is 0 (changed from -10 as suggesting on CK's website) > and others are at 0. > Renicing xmms to

Re: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

2003-08-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi kourosh i'd say try a better ( name brand ) 2GB memory stick muskin, viking, kingston, corsair we had similar problems with generic memory modules, and used kingston 1GB and all the random crashes w/ 1GB memory went away yes, its expensive for 2GB.. but you're on the bleeding edge o

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: | hello, | | Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can | usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there | any simple way to view a changelog? Is $ vim /usr/share/doc//changelog.Debian.g

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:08:01PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Hugh Saunders (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 01:25:45AM +0100): > > erm, why not just run unstable?? mixed stable/testing/unstable looks > > like a mess to me and probably doesnt help with getting security fixes > > for stuff e

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 02:24:39AM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:08:01PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Hugh Saunders (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 01:25:45AM +0100): > > > erm, why not just run unstable?? mixed stable/testing/unstable looks > > > like a mess t

Re : Order ide drivers are loaded?

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Joan, you wrote : > ... linux won't boot any more > because for example /dev/hde has been moved to /dev/hdf perhaps try an argument to kernel , like 'root=/dev/hdf' , in your lilo.config or on commandline when booting ? hope this helps, Siward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > And, this is *NOT* valid: > >deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates contrib main non-free > > Please, correct my misunderstandings, Colin; but, what I understand from > your message above is that, regardless of an

Re: XFS + big IDE drive on woody : need help

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Gilles, you wrote: I need to have together : XFS on all file system and big IDE drive. what are the best suggestion : - compile 2.4.20 kernel plus kernel-patch-xfs for 2.4.18 [seems odd %(] - update debian including testing distro - forget 250 giga disk for a while [ until sarge com

Re: Printer Toolbox

2003-08-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:31:09AM -0700, S Yuval wrote: > Hello, > I own an HP DeskJet 612C print and I'm looking for something equivalent to HP's > Printer Toolbox. The tool box allows controlling all aspects of the printing > process: paper size, print quality, full-duplex printing, ink c

Re: APIC error

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Ivan, APIC : probably stands for 'Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller' interrupts are handled by kernel normal debian systems have kernel logging enabled if kernel can log this, but still writes to console, then it might mean this is a serious problem. maybe try to upgrade your

Re: 2.4.18-686 kernel, but no PCMCIA

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Kenneth, "unresolved symbol" often means that version of module doesnt match version of kernel, you didnt say where you got these, are you sure they are supposed to work together ? if so, then it is a bug, and in that case it may already be fixed, did you check bugtracking syst

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: > hello, > > Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can > usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there > any simple way to view a changelog? talk about FAQ! second time today!! look at th

Re: 3Com 3C905B-TX (3c59x.o) Kernel problem?!

2003-08-04 Thread Siward
Hi Alexandru, your subject line seems to be a little confused about type card you have. a 3c905 is not a 3c590 , nor a 3c509, and therefore they do not have same driver. but probably you selected same module as you did on potato ? hm, your message sounds like you didnt install network

Re: best wireless card for debian

2003-08-04 Thread Ken McCord
I love my Dell TrueMobile 1150 PC Card. It's a rebadged Orinoco Gold card, and includes a socket for connecting an external antenna. If you catch a sale, you can get it for about $40. Ken On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:49, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:23:03PM -0400, Howell E

apt and changelogs

2003-08-04 Thread Matt Peter
hello, Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there any simple way to view a changelog? -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Setting Gnome preferences system wide

2003-08-04 Thread Mark C
Hi, Sorry if this has already been asked before, but after some net searching, I'm still slightly stuck on the answer. I'm build a Debian Gnome desktop for a small local company, and wish to set a few things up as default in Gnome-2.2.2 for every user, this way I can deploy the same image on ever

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > I don't think I want to do this ;> > ># sudo apt-get -u install apt=0.5.8 >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree... Done >The following packages will be REMOVED: > apt-utils aptitude synapt

Re: mail gathering

2003-08-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 2003-08-04T22:54:34Z, "vinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> fetchmail only allows me to download mail to root but i want to put > the >> mail into my pop3 account how do i go about doing this and what > program >> can i use ? > > Run fetchmail as you

Re: mail gathering

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:54:34AM +0200, vinz wrote: > Hi. > > OK I have a problem I can't figure this out... I'm useing powermail > www.powerdns.com > to hand my pop3 mail system. > > what i need to do is to download all mail from my pop3 server on the > internet mail.webonline.co.za > and

Re: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

2003-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:08, Kourosh wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone been able to get a Linux system, preferably Debian Woody, to > run stably with 16GB RAM? I have someone who has a Dual Xeon proc > system with 8GM RAM (8 x 1GB ECC registered) running Debian Woody and > Oracle 9i with no problems.

How to override SECURE_PATH in sudo?

2003-08-04 Thread John Zaitz
Hi, I am trying to setup sudo to allow users to run files under /opt/bin without having to type in the full path to the executable. In woody, sudo is compiled with SECURE_PATH set. Even though I try to override this with "Defaults !env_reset" in the sudoers file, the path is still set to that whic

mail gathering + port conflicts

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
and top all of that i have a port conflict with the fetchmail and powermail should i have installed fetchmail with a different port or set an smtp host ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail gathering

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T22:54:34Z, "vinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > fetchmail only allows me to download mail to root but i want to put the > mail into my pop3 account how do i go about doing this and what program > can i use ? Run fetchmail as you? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP sig

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:44:12PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:47:11 -0400 > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > How do I keep from having this particular package downloaded? > > > > I suspect th

mail gathering

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
Hi. OK I have a problem I can't figure this out... I'm useing powermail www.powerdns.com to hand my pop3 mail system. what i need to do is to download all mail from my pop3 server on the internet mail.webonline.co.za and bring it to my local pop3 server localhost. fetchmail only allows me to

Re: OT: c++ reference documentations - THANX

2003-08-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
thanx for the help, now I can really start working :). Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade exim -> exim4

2003-08-04 Thread David Corbin
Does anybody care to offer any tips in upgrading my exim to exim4? I've looked through the exim documentation about it, but I'm kind of hoping that debian will do a better job than they describe Is there some way to install exim4 without removing the version I currently have? For "configu

Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

2003-08-04 Thread Kourosh
Hi, Has anyone been able to get a Linux system, preferably Debian Woody, to run stably with 16GB RAM? I have someone who has a Dual Xeon proc system with 8GM RAM (8 x 1GB ECC registered) running Debian Woody and Oracle 9i with no problems. They would very much like to up this to 16GB (8 x 2GB EC

Help needed w/ install of woody on Dell C510 laptop

2003-08-04 Thread fbrian
Hi: I am getting this error message when I initially reboot from a fresh install of debian-woody using vanilla boot disks. Hardware: dell latitude C510 output below--- Starting deferred execution scheduler:atd Starting deferred periodic command scheduler:Cron c

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:33:17AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 17:31, alex wrote: > > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:57:21PM -0400, MJM wrote: > Will the free store be properly maintained when the following is executed? Yes. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package installation question

2003-08-04 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Andreas Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > what is the "correct" way to install a package thet depends on a library > which I didn't install from a deb but compiled by hand from source? Compiled it by hand? Cor. I use gcc myself :-) > Just download the deb and make

Re: Not able to erase an empty directory... ?

2003-08-04 Thread Kourosh
Ignacio, You can try ls -a to see if there are any hidden files. To remove the directory you can use the -R switch to rm that makes it recursive, i.e. rm -fR /usr/local/Windows, and that should do it. Still should be as root though. Regards. On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:48, Ignacio Más Ivars wrot

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Chris Metzler (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:05:25PM -0400): > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:54:38 -0500 > "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [ much snipping ] > > > > I do not want to do without apt-utils, aptitude, and synaptic . . . > > > > What else am I missing?

Re: zope not starting

2003-08-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Kidest Mamo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > when I was starting zope I got the following error please help > Starting Zope failed no INSTANCE_HOME found , use "zopectl create" > first > > what I hve to to do to create sopectl??? The error message says: use "zopectl create" So I assume you

Not able to erase an empty directory... ?

2003-08-04 Thread Ignacio Más Ivars
Hi, all: I have a really weird behaviour in my Debian box. I wanted to clean out today the wine installation that I have removing all the installed Windows programs under /usr/local/Windows so I just cd ther and rm -r as root... The funny thing is the the 'Program files' subdirectory

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:54:38 -0500 "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ much snipping ] > > I do not want to do without apt-utils, aptitude, and synaptic . . . > > What else am I missing? Upgrading those to unstable as well? -c -- Chris Metzler

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:08, vinz wrote: > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? Because it is brain dead to do that. Clear Text Passwords... plus it allows someone to try direct hacking into a machine with a "absolutely known" account. Bare minimum would be SSH for ROOT. But even the

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:47:11 -0400 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is > > not numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this > > particular

Re: OT: c++ reference documentations

2003-08-04 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:30:15 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [looking for C++ Standard Library docs] > http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ Copyright says it's from 1994. That says about all. It only covers STL (no strings!), nothing else. And even that info is ou

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Connor wrote: | | | Thanks Chris. Still doesn't make sense to me and [...] That's no disgrace. Understanding public-key encryption takes, if not quite an *average* level of intelligence, at least a level that is by no means universal. The only pro

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 09:03:03PM +0100): > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:06:13PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > > Worse, instal

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-08-04T20:01:48Z, Alan Connor writes: That has no meaning to me. What if I were to just copy all of that garbage on your posts? Wouldn't people then think I was you? Not unless you can reverse-engineer the private key that I used to sign my posts, and use that key to

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:18:18PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 13:11:52 2003 > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:41:37 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Chris. Still doesn't make sense to me and I am seriously considering > writing a stanza in my newsr

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Alan Connor (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 01:18:18PM -0700): > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 13:11:52 2003 > > > > You might want to read about PGP, and public key infrastructures, a bit > > more. > > > > http://web.bham.ac.uk/N.M.Queen/pgp/pgp.html > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articl

zope not starting

2003-08-04 Thread Kidest Mamo
when I was starting zope I got the following error please helpStarting Zope failed no INSTANCE_HOME found , use "zopectl create" first   what I hve to to do to create sopectl???   thanks Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:18:18 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Chris. Still doesn't make sense to me and I am seriously > considering writing a stanza in my newsreaders filters that will dump > any posts with PGP sigs. That's your right. I hope you're aware that in the proces

Sorry for the html mail

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
the html mail is no more :D I'm a new commer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Kevin Buhr said on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0700: The 2.55-3 source package builds fine on a vanilla Woody machine. (In fact, the unstable "spamassassin" binary package would install fine on a vanilla Woody system, too, except it has an apparently unnecessary dependen

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Rich Puhek
Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:29:51PM -0500, Marino Fernandez wrote: I cannot help you with the debian way... that I found more complex than the regular way. Download a pristine kernel (get 2.6.0-test2) cd /usr/src Untar kernel in /usr/src mv linux linux~ ln -s linux-2.6.0-

Re: KDE startsound played by xmms after security update of kdebase-libs

2003-08-04 Thread Nils Trebing
Holger Marzen wrote: > Hi all, [...] > Even stranger: xmms is not started directly but from a shell script > /usr/local/bin/wavplay.sh that I wrote some time ago. Only Mozilla > knows that it should use that script for wav-files. > > I looked in the control center, but I could not find any plac

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread John Hasler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- alanconnor writes: > Still doesn't make sense to me and I am seriously considering writing a > stanza in my newsreaders filters that will dump any posts with PGP sigs. I think maybe I will start signing everything. - -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Hor

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:01:48PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Kirk Strauser: > > In the same way, I could be Becky Smith using an alias. Regardless > > of my real identity, you know that any post with my signature was > > written by *me*. > > That has no meaning to me. What if I were to just cop

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T20:18:18Z, Alan Connor writes: > 1) Neither I nor anyone I know cares if you are who you say you are or > not. Neither I nor anyone I know have cats. There must be no demand for them. >( In fact, someone could forge your PGP sig because most people don't >have the software

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T20:01:48Z, Alan Connor writes: > Don't know and don't care. I assess you by the quality of your posts. Fair enough. When I sign my posts, you can be assured that the *same* person is writing each time. If you've followed my postings for a period of time, you may decide that you tr

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:26:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither of > > which use his real name or stats. > > > > He can prove that he is someone he isn't. > > T

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D. Schleif wrote: Yes, I have a mixed system, preferring to stay with stable; but, I need certain packages from testing and unstable . . . However, it is python-apt that has the problem with the non-existent libapt packages. Nevertheless, I have stable, testing and unstable in sources.list,

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:29:51PM -0500, Marino Fernandez wrote: > I cannot help you with the debian way... that I found more complex than the > regular way. > > Download a pristine kernel (get 2.6.0-test2) > cd /usr/src > Untar kernel in /usr/src > mv linux linux~ > ln -s linux-2.6.0-test2 linu

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither of > which use his real name or stats. > > He can prove that he is someone he isn't. The GPG signature on this mail does not prove that I am Colin Watson. It prov

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 13:11:52 2003 > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:41:37 -0700 > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither > > of which use his real name or stats. > > > > He can prove that he is someone he

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 13:02:51 2003 > > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:28, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > *I* don't get any spam. > > im guessing you dont get much ham either... > > Morning. > > Morning. > > What you got? >

Re: kernel update causes ps to segfault

2003-08-04 Thread aradorlinux
El Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:58:17 -0500 Lindsey Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 007c That isn't a ps bug, it's a kernel bug. Please pass it through ksymoops and send a full bug report to the kernel lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 04 August 2003 8:57 am, François Chenais wrote: > doesn't work :-| > > > > tanna:~/tmp/kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386-2.6.0-test1# apt-get build-dep > kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386 Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Build-Depends dependency for kernel-ima

Re: 2.6.test02 fails to compile...riscom8.o

2003-08-04 Thread aradorlinux
El Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:05:47 +0200 "A. Loonstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > When I run make-kpkg kernel-image I fails around riscom8.o. I tried > several settings and downgraded to gcc-2.95, no help. Know bug: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153 The driver hasn't been ported (still)

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:06:13PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Mon 04 Aug 02003 at 06:19:34PM +0100): > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:57:39AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Worse, installing apt-listchanges depends on python-apt, which -- in > > > turn -- dep

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Kevin Buhr said on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0700: > The 2.55-3 source package builds fine on a vanilla Woody machine. (In > fact, the unstable "spamassassin" binary package would install fine on > a vanilla Woody system, too, except it has an apparently unnecessary > dependency on "spamc"

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 12:45:09 2003 > > > > At 2003-08-04T17:41:37Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > :-) > > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither of > > which use his real name or stats. > > What m

OT bash $substitution in 2.05b.0-9

2003-08-04 Thread David selby
I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... #!/bin/sh test="123456789" temp=${test:1:2} echo $temp If I execute the above in woody bash I get 23 OK so far. I have cgywin on 98SE, running bash 2.05b.0-9. When I run the above I get ... :syntax error:bad substitution for the

Re: 2.6.test02 fails to compile...riscom8.o

2003-08-04 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 04 August 2003 4:05 pm, A. Loonstra wrote: > I've installed a debian woody system with a gnome2.2 backport. Basically > it's a fresh install. I wanted to compile 2.6-test02 and created a > config from config-2.4.18-686-smp config and enabling the 2.6 features > by hand. > > When I run mak

Re: why sign email

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T19:45:09Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please refer me to it. Or post it, even. From Karsten's page: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/gpg-signed-mail.html -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: --purge when package already gone ?

2003-08-04 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Lundi 4 Août 2003 17:25, Andreas Janssen a déclamé : > Try > dpkg --purge slrn I should have thought of it myself... It works, thanks ! -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837 --

Re: more install problems

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: Hello again. I have found the configurator that I needed, in theory. It is modconf. But I cannot install i82368, the errors include 'No such device' and 'depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/.../8139too.o' So the compilation was not successful apparently. Per

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* vinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030804 21:08]: > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? For security reasons. Telnet transfers your password (or to be correct: ALL transmitted data) in plain text. Yours sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 Aug 2003 8:04 am, Brian Kimball wrote: > Chris Kenrick wrote: > > I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to > > read Usenet articles too. > > Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read an

Re: Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to pass a parameter to a telnet session? > > I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log > in. I telnet to his account from another box using: > > telnet hostname -l username

Re: Need help re LVM setup...

2003-08-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 Aug 2003 1:14 am, Neal Lippman wrote: > I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is > presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently > stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and sam

Re: what is libmcrypt.la ?

2003-08-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 15:42:51 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > He is looking for libmcrypt.a but what is there is > libmcrypt.la which comes from package libmcrypt4 > (testing). First time I hear of the .la extension. > What is it? As it says on its first line: "# libmcrypt.la - a libtool librar

Re: downgrading from testing to woody

2003-08-04 Thread Dan Hunt
Would this help? http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&edition=&q=%22downgrade+from+testing+to+stable%22 or would this help? http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880#comment Good luck and Kind Regards Dan Hunt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why sign email

2003-08-04 Thread hashi
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:19:50AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-03T22:02:53Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Appreciated, Kirk. > > Any time. I still owe you favors for writing the "why I sign my email" > essay that I refer the occasional person to. Please refer

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread David Z Maze
"vinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please don't post to mailing lists using HTML; set your mailer to send plain text only.) > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? It's easier to tell who did what, and is slightly more secure (

Re: Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to pass a parameter to a telnet session? > > I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log > in. I telnet to his account from another box using: > > telnet hostname -l username

Re: Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 04 August 2003 21:08, vinz wrote: > Why can I not access my linux server as the root? Don't use telnet, use SSH. Putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) is a pretty good SSH client and should do everything you need. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-04 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 04 August 2003 19:48, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have set up a user on one box that does not require a password to log > in. That's not a Good Thing (TM) unless you're in a very trusted environment, and even there I would not consider it unless absolutely unavoidable. > I want to be able

Telnet Access as root

2003-08-04 Thread vinz
Why can I not access my linux server as the root?

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > > to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to >

Re: Maildir -- purging old messages

2003-08-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 13:40, Bill Moseley wrote: > I have a spam folder. I check it once in a while for false positives > (rarely found). > > I'd like to run a cron job that would clean out messages older than a > 15 days. Try archivemail, I do exactly that on all my mailing lists/spam folder

network logging suggestion

2003-08-04 Thread Christian Nordin
Suggestion needed. I'm currently using iptables and fwlogwatch, altough I want to make reports on amount of incomming and outgoing traffic for specifik programs. Which I don't seem to be able to do with fwlogwatch. What is the best alternative for realtime monitoring of network traffic? Thanx

Re: aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

2003-08-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:13:57PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is not > numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this > particular program to be downgraded every week. > > How do I keep from having this particu

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:41:37 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither > of which use his real name or stats. > > He can prove that he is someone he isn't. No, he can't. That's not what a PGP signature is, does, or

Re: OT: c++ reference documentations

2003-08-04 Thread Felix Natter
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I've just picked up a c++ book and started to learn (I only have experience in > perl). I was wondering if there are info/man pages (or any other electronic > documentation) that I can use as a reference (at least for the standard > library).

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-04T17:41:37Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > Funny. I know someone who has 2 of those PGP signatures things, neither of > which use his real name or stats. What makes you think that my real name is Kirk Strauser? > He can prove that he is some

Re: Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows andHardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 06:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:49:47AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Incidentally, how much space are you dedicating to your Squid cache? I > > know that this can't be assigned directly, so eith

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