Re: Root path question

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 21:20, Steve Doerr wrote: > I'm confused about root's bash profile. In vt1, the directories /sbin & > /usr/local/sbin are excluded from the path. If I su to root within > Gnome or KDE in a terminal they are there. > > I'm not sure why there isn't a common bash profile for

gdm setup returns error

gdm installation in sid returns error code (1). gdm works fine though. Siddhesh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New OpenSSL installed -- recompilation required?

Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, after I have installed the latest libssl, do I need to re-compile anything that makes use of libssl? Concrete examples for me are: - OpenSSH - Mod_SSL The reason I am asking for, on my server I have OpenSSH and Apache "hand-tailored" to fit our needs. However, for comp

Re: How do people remount /usr read-only after apt-get?

Malcolm Ferguson wrote: [snip] 2) This makes me wonder why we don't restart affected processes after applying security patches. For instance, today's OpenSSL patch seemed to affect ssh and bind. Well, I had to restart them as part of remount /usr ro. Presumably those processes were still usin

Re: Recommendations for donated machines

Kevin Mark wrote: Hello D-u's, I need a recommendation for some donated machines. Here are the specs: P I/75 32MB 2GB (may upgrade memory to 64/96MB) That is good, the more the merrier to help buffer your slow IDE disk. Of course the 33mhz (?) FSB isn't going to be a speed demon for even memory

Re: exim4 SSL/TLS client: refusal to verify certificate

Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:40:07 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: Perhaps it's failing because it can't verify a certificate chain from a trusted root certificate? You might need to grab the thawte CA cert and append it to your tlscerts.out. You are right. Exim doesn't even care

A novice having trouble with X window on install

Hello all, I'm in the midst of my first ever installation of Debian and I'm having trouble with the graphical interface. I've completed the process (installing the bf2.4 flavor with only desktop environment picked in tasksel -- I chose not to run dselect yet). The install complete with a text log-

Virus-infected hosts list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've started a virus infected hosts list that is net-lsearchable. It's available at http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ and is updated when I get more virus infected email or requests for removal. If I get a lot of interest, I might make an RBL out of it. - --

Re: install Apache problem under Debian 3.0 r1

Jacob Anawalt wrote: What sources are you using in /etc/apt/sources.list? I ask because libgd1 1.8.4-17.woody2 and libgd1-noxpm 1.8.4-17.woody2 should be available to you. Did the apt-get update (or dselect Update) fail? Are you choosing to not run dselect after tasksel? Ilve never tried doing

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

Paul Mackinney wrote: Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu (one of the more impressive featres of RH, IMO). The 'modconf' command run as root allows you to dynamically enable/disable kernel modules, and 'dmesg' will print all the startup messages, which typically show lots of dev

boot loader question

Greetings all. I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a question about the boot loader. I have used grub for quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, and if one is preferred over the other, is it difficult to switch? Thanks in advance for any help and/or for directing me to

Re: Replace HDD

Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hi, I have an old pc running Debian Woody and I have 2 questions. Firstly, the hard drive ios quite old and become quite noisy, I suspect it is on the way out. What is the easiest way to replace it ? It only have 2 partions, one of them a swap. The new drive is slightly bigg

Re: install Apache problem under Debian 3.0 r1

tao lin wrote: Hi, all I am a newbie of Linux. Now I am using Debian 3.0 r1. When I try to use tasksel, and select web server to install, it return the follow error - == Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the pack

spamassassin: recent process slowdown ???

Since the end of last week, spamd processing time per message has gone from ~6 seconds to >30 seconds. I am not clear whether or not any recent upgrades have changed spamassassin. I did not, at first, attribute my mail processing slowdown to spamassassin; rather, exim was timing out on procmail.

ppp daemon ip-up.d perm +

Hi, Permissions of ip-up.d: deblnx:/home/john# ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d total 28 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1306 Apr 25 2002 00-ipppd -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 962 Apr 2 2002 000usepeerdns -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2460 Jan 4 2002 0dns-up -rwxr-xr-x1

Re: xwindows

steef wrote: .hey out there, can somebody tell me how come: - installing woody_kernelvariant bf2.4; taskel does not give the possibility to install Xwindows a f t e r having installed debian security packages. so apt cannot get the Xwindowspackages from the (ftp) server. when i insta

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

Tom wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes, and I expect that it will do the rollover in another 11 days.

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 10:19:33 +0800 "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:44:01 -0400 > Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:11:29 -0400 > > "S. Loisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear Debianites, > > > > > > I've decided to

Re: a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:03:53PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:49:01PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > No response from package maintainer -- can anyone answer this question > > > about the newest a2ps in unstable? > > >

Re: a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:49:01PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > No response from package maintainer -- can anyone answer this question > > about the newest a2ps in unstable? > > I don't supposed you actually bothered to read the changelog or

Re: Unstable in the house

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:19:08AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Thanks for the reply. You obviously haven't read the metacity manpage. Except, of course, that I have... especially the bit that describes the --replace option. A small bit, I admit, but it's there. I suppose it's rather appropri

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:20, BruceG wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 23:50, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've been looking more at getting a wireless card for my laptop lately > > as my university is now nearly 100% covered with wifi access. I know > > that there is already good support for 802.

Re: Old address

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:13:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We were AOL subscribers in the past. Our address was > [EMAIL PROTECTED] We thought this address had been canceled when we canceled our > subscription in 2001. When we rejoined last month, we found that that address w

Re: a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0700, Tom wrote: > No response from package maintainer -- can anyone answer this question > about the newest a2ps in unstable? I don't supposed you actually bothered to read the changelog or anything, right? After all, you're an unstable user, so why would you

Re: pppd daemon

Yeah I knew I left ping on too long..I wasn't sure if it exited on its own. I'm wondering if the exit status isn't the result of my finally doing ctrl-c ? Anyway I do appreciate the help-this has been one pain to resolve. I will check permissions on /etc/ppp/ip-up.d and recently there have been no

Re: Old address

[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed: > We were AOL subscribers in the past. Our address was > [EMAIL PROTECTED] We thought this address had been canceled when we > canceled our subscription in 2001. When we rejoined last month, we > found that that address was "taken." Could you please be sure that no >

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:11:29PM -0400, S. Loisel wrote: > I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested > before that this is a good way to get an initial installation of Debian > up and running, and it's true that the process is very seamless. It is if you never plan

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > hardware info, as seen by the kernel, can be found in /proc. There > a

Re: Unstable in the house

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:13:35AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > brain:/home/antgel# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > There are 0 alternatives which provide `x-window-manager'. What does setting the x-window-manager alternative have to do with setting the Gnome window manager?

Re: Unstable in the house

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:02:17PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:13:35AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > brain:/home/antgel# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > > > There are 0 alternatives which provide `x-window-manager'. > > What does setting the x-wind

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

Clive Menzies declaimed: < quoted post snipped > > I'm just starting out on this road coming from getmail, exim, mutt to > mailfilter, fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, exim, mutt. > It's taken some time but I've now got preconnect "mailfilter" in my > fetchmailrc with the following: > > DENY=^F

Re: What happened to linuxconf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:01:04AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: > > > Welcome to the heard. > > > > What did you hear? > > Or, rather, who heard you? It's not like GNU spells Hurd right either. 8:o) - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] kernel versioning: extra suffixes

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:54:25PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > where can we find the meaning of the extra suffixes for the kernel > vesrioning (e.g, -ac, -preN, -bkN) ? Not sure that there's even a canonical list, or that there would need to be since these are rather obvious, after all... Anyw

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > I think that a lot of users tend to switch to using root because they > cannot achieve simple tasks with their "normal" user. For instance > writing cd's. It would help if there is a doc that explains how users > can best set up their system to a

Re: Old address

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:13:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Could you please be sure that no other person is using our > old address or has access to any credit information. Whoa! Funniest idiot ever! - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:44:01 -0400 Antonio Rodr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:11:29 -0400 > "S. Loisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Debianites, > > > > I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested > > before that this is a good way to get

Re: [OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 16:55, csj wrote: > At Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:52:30 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- > > tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR > > for the Linux desktop is not availabl

Re: Installation has not created boot properly

In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Well, after several attempts at re-running LILO, it still didn't get any > further. So, needing my PC in some kind of working order I set about > repairing the Win2000 boot sector... And got exactly the same as my > post-Linux install boot attempts. In th

huge amount of unsed kernel modules.

Hi, I installed the 2.4.22-1-k7 kernel image. I had the 2.4bf kernel and now I find that a huge amount of kernel modules are bing loaded. I understand that the new kernel probably has more things compiled as modules than the 2.4bf but there are heaps of modules that are unused. /etc/modules: af_

Unstable in the house

Hi all, Just completed the move to unstable and it's looking amazing so far. This was _definitely_ a good idea. There is one minor issue with the Gnome default WM. I removed sawfish and installed metacity. However: brain:/home/antgel# update-alternatives --config x-window-manager There are 0

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 17:11:29 -0400 "S. Loisel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianites, > > I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested > before that this is a good way to get an initial installation of > Debian up and running, and it's true that the process is ver

HELP ME!!! No more apt-get and dpkg!!!

Dear Debian user's, I'm Emanuele. Today I have maked the "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" commands from x-shell. During the update, my system is crashed. Now all "apt-get upgrade", "apt-get -f install" or "dpkg --configure -a" commands give me this error: --- AmigaONE:~# dpkg --configure

Re: Old address

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:13:18 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We were AOL subscribers in the past. Our address was > [EMAIL PROTECTED] We thought this address had been canceled when we canceled our > subscription in 2001. When we rejoined last month, we found that that address was >

Re: Installation has not created boot properly

On (04/10/03 00:19), dan oram wrote: > >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed > >>to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly. > >>Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the foll

Re: dangling symlink?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system > whose effects are so trivial and harmless that nobody bothers to fix > it since there a

[OT] Speech Recognition & Linux

I read the previous mails about this topic and I conclude that there are no gpled programs of speech recognition. Isn't it? And what about other AI gpl/free programs? Did anyone knows some? I wonder if someone can tell me which is currently the more successful algorithm for speech recognition.

Re: PHP4 in Unstable

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:09:51PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > I can install the base PHP4 package, as well as the php4-phsql > package. But php4-imap, php4-ldap, php4-cgi, php4-mysql all fail with > dpkg fatal errors during installation. Don't see any bugs filed against the above package

Re: Installation has not created boot properly

From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly. Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following: Booting from IDE 0 LI And it freezes. I can bo

Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock 3.0r1 kernel (2.2.20-idepci). I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm). Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I have tried two different PS

Re: Gibraltar firewall

Am Fre, 2003-10-03 um 23.51 schrieb Keith O'Connell: > Hi, > > New user type questions I am afraid. I am trying out the > Debian based firewall CD "Gibraltar". I am just tinkering > about the edges at the moment and I have two periferal > problems which I should be

Re: Gibraltar firewall

Hi, Would you believe it. The mist parted and I solved both problems I do feel stupid - sorry! :-) Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidstone, Kent. (UK) /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

S. Loisel wrote: Dear Debianites, I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested before that this is a good way to get an initial installation of Debian up and running, and it's true that the process is very seamless. I want to try out Debian due to its much vaunted ease

Re: Gibraltar firewall

Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, New user type questions I am afraid. I am trying out the Debian based firewall CD "Gibraltar". I am just tinkering about the edges at the moment and I have two periferal problems which I should be able to solve, but can't. They are

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:53:56PM -0500, Scott wrote: | Greetings: | | Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these | configuration questions?: | | As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration | files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone with deb

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

On (03/10/03 23:12), Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote: > > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > > clear recommendations?

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fetchmail a

Re: PHP4 in Unstable

Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 04:41:00PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Is it safe to upgrade to PHP4 4.3.2+rc3-6 from unstable yet (running latest unstable Apache 1.3)? Or should I stay with 4.1.2-6woody3? Last time I tried - I had MAJOR problems. Gee, with a description like

Re: [OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

At Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:52:30 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- > tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR > for the Linux desktop is not available. If by native you mean working like a champ, then, I

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 15:53:56 -0500, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Greetings: > > Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these > configuration questions?: > > As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration > files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is

Gibraltar firewall

Hi, New user type questions I am afraid. I am trying out the Debian based firewall CD "Gibraltar". I am just tinkering about the edges at the moment and I have two periferal problems which I should be able to solve, but can't. They are not important, but the

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

* S. Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-03 17:36]: > Dear Debianites, ...snip > I realize this is probably not the Debian way of doing things, but I am > an adventurer in the jungle with a whip and a gun, and I'm looking for a > golden statue. Or something. > > At any rate, could anyone give

Re: cd ripping - was: cdrecord errors

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > I think the error is rather in CD ripping than in the burning process. > > Try to rip with cdparanoia and describe what happens. > > BTW: Are these CDs copy protected? Sorry, I was a bit tired when I wrote

Re: pppd daemon

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:48:20AM -0800, J Y wrote: > The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet > applications to "see" the connection. > > deblnx:/home/john# plog > Oct 3 13:48:48 deblnx pppd[1333]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid > 1378), status = 0x1 > Oct

knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

Dear Debianites, I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested before that this is a good way to get an initial installation of Debian up and running, and it's true that the process is very seamless. I want to try out Debian due to its much vaunted ease of maintenance a

Re: Holy Spam!

On 3 Oct 2003 21:10:05 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. > Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. I've been "reading this mailing list with an email client" (and posting to it as well) for the past two years. Still doing it. Still alive. -

RH to Debian conversion help

Greetings: Can someone familiar with debian and Redhat help me wth these configuration questions?: As one familiar with RH knows, Redhat has may of it's configuration files located in /etc/sysconfig. That favor is gone with debian, which is fine, I just need to figure out where everything went.

xwindows

.hey out there, can somebody tell me how come: - installing woody_kernelvariant bf2.4; taskel does not give the possibility to install Xwindows a f t e r having installed debian security packages. so apt cannot get the Xwindowspackages from the (ftp) server. when i install woody, bf24

Re: Holy Spam!

I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. Newsguy filters out all the spam. I have a large spam blocking list, http://www.greens.org/about/r.txt (tcprules format) and yesterday I blocked a big chunk of Global Crossing, because

Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly getting my share of hits from the various worms going around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some clear recommendations? Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fetchmail and sending to smarthost. I've learned how to write and

Re: help with xinetd

>Can you 'apt-get remove telnetd'? I mean, if you are going to have it >disabled, why not just uninstall it? Well, I could, but I was more concerned that I had xinetd configured properly. I found my problem, dumb mistake I had disable = telnet insteadof the correct "disabled". Once that was don

Re: Debian shuts down sitefinder

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:54:06PM -0700, Tom wrote: > Verisign has stopped sitefinder; they say "temporarily". Seems like a > good sign! It is indeed. Although I think your choice of subject line gives us credit we really don't deserve! ;) -- Colin Watson [EMA

Re: USB mouse under X not working

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:43, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > don't know how usb-uhci and ehci-hcd play together. iirc ehci-hcd is for > > usb 2.0, so if you don't have such bus, disable it. > > > > They play fine together. In fact there is really no need disable it. > If you

Re: help with xinetd

Hello Scott (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > As I setup my debian box, I installed xinetd so it would be more like > the RH setups I was used to. The change seemed to go fine when I > installed it via dselect. I expected a conflict with inetd, but got > no complaint. I did get a message that the

[OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

Hi, After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR for the Linux desktop is not available. Has anyone tried Windows SR programs (like Dragon Naturally Speaking or ViaVoice) under Wine, CrossOver Office or Win4Li

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

Quoting Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you. > You're being paid to pull your hair out, so if the gains in productivity > from Apple hardware and OS are worth more then the cost and your salary, > your boss is probably not goin

Re: Network attached storage and backup

hi ya aaron On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Aaron wrote: > I lack any kind of realistic backup system, I'm not RAIDing my data > (only a single 200 gig drive), my hardware is sub-par (Linux doesn't > really *like* VIA too much), and I'm sure there are other things I > could be doing differently. > > I'm in

Re: Network attached storage and backup

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:50, Aaron wrote: > Hello Debs. > > (Does it get tiresome being called Debs? I personally don't mind being > called one, but I never asked) > > My question is a matter of opinion, and since there are so many > opinions I respect here, I thought I would bring it to you. Whi

Re: Installation has not created boot properly

On October 3, 2003 08:37 am, dan oram wrote: > from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following: > > Booting from IDE 0 > > LI The following is from /usr/share/doc/lilo/README.common.problems . Although if you are able to boot from a floppy, it sounds like you may have forgotten to

Re: Debian shuts down sitefinder

Tom wrote: Verisign has stopped sitefinder; they say "temporarily". Seems like a good sign! http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3087071 Yeah. Here is the related Slashdot article: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/03/1410244&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=95 ICANN basically told

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:20:25 -0700 > From: Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Help, OSX vs Linux > > Hi All, > > I'm a system's admin looking after several different sites at > which most of

Re: help with xinetd

Scott wrote: Greetings: As I setup my debian box, I installed xinetd so it would be more like the RH setups I was used to. The change seemed to go fine when I installed it via dselect. I expected a conflict with inetd, but got no complaint. I did get a message that the jist was nothing that had

Re: dangling symlink?

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi all, > > English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means? It's 'hanging' with some suggestion of looseness, chaos, not neat and tidy. You can hang a weight on a piece of string, but if you cut

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

Ray wrote: i haven't actually looked into the numbers, but zone-h.org has linux website defacements usually in the 50-75% so i guess it just depends on who and how you ask. granted we have yet to see a 'code red' like virus for apache. so far the only virus i recall seeing for apache was for

make exim keep retrying

Does anyone know how to make exim exempt a give host from the normal retry period stuff? We just got an exchange 2003 server and its smtp service, aside from only accepting 3 messages at at time, seems to time out fairly regularly. I would like exim to always ignore the timeout and exempt it from

Debian shuts down sitefinder

Verisign has stopped sitefinder; they say "temporarily". Seems like a good sign! http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3087071 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Holy Spam!

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:33:33PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT) Jon Earle wrote: > > > > I've been forced to change my email address, thanks to the debian mailing > > list. > > No, it was thanks to spam. You're confusing the issues here. The Debian > list i

Re: Old address

Did anybody install the galeon browser. because i installed it but everyday the fucking program crashes... anytime im using 1.3.9 i know is the latest one but if somebody can help me i would be fantastic. Hernan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

help with xinetd

Greetings: As I setup my debian box, I installed xinetd so it would be more like the RH setups I was used to. The change seemed to go fine when I installed it via dselect. I expected a conflict with inetd, but got no complaint. I did get a message that the jist was nothing that had been previou

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

On (03/10/03 12:02), Mike Egglestone wrote: > Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either > > Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you > > would > > require a bit less downtime with Deb

Re: pppd daemon

Hello J Y (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > The connection seems to be working now but I can't get any internet > applications to "see" the connection. Try if you can ping ip addresses. Try to open http://192.25.206.10 (that is www.debian.org). If it works, that only your DNS is not configured prop

Old address

   We were AOL subscribers in the past.  Our address was [EMAIL PROTECTED]  We thought this address had been canceled when we canceled our subscription in 2001.  When we rejoined last month, we found that that address was "taken."    Could you please be sure that no other person is using o

Re: Holy Spam!

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT) Jon Earle wrote: > > I've been forced to change my email address, thanks to the debian mailing > list. No, it was thanks to spam. You're confusing the issues here. The Debian list is not the enemy, spammers are. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ --

a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

No response from package maintainer -- can anyone answer this question about the newest a2ps in unstable? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: a2ps: Debian/>>>UNSTABLE<<<: config files have changed Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003

RE: I want spam!

Iemand genaamd Info met e-mailadres schreef op vrijdag 3 oktober 2003 20:41: > Please send me lots and lots of spam, viruses, hoaxes, etc! > > I'm testing filters and want real-world spam to hit me. > > Send it all here! I was already thinking "what's he doing". When

Re: modconf under 2.6.0-testn

> > http://kolrabi.de/files/modconf-linux2.6.0-patch.gz Great!!! Thanx Nick :) -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+: a-- C++ UL P+ L+++ E W+++ N++ o K- w--- O M- V- PS+ PE- Y- PGP--- t--- 5 X+ R* tv-- b- DI D++ G++ e++ h! r-- y- --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -

Re: Holy Spam!

On Friday 03 October 2003 1:25 pm, Dan Anderson wrote: >4) Anything with .pif, .bat, .exe attached is probably spam. Quarantine >it (unless it's from your somebody on your whitelist). I'd add HTML email as well, Dan. FWIW, I'm suprised that HTML email requesting support is sent to this listserv

eth1 in router box stopped working

I've been using a P233MMX woody box with stock 2.4.18-i386 kernel as a router for a home network for a couple weeks. Had IP masquerading working using shorewall (also with the IPTABLES rules from the IPmasq HOWTO, but ended up staying with shorewall). Then out of the blue (I at least didn't ch

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

> I don't think so. I'm the one that has to support the box in the end, and why > should I pull my hair out administering OSX server when I know a Linux box can > do basically the same thing. Well, from the perspective of a boss I'd say it's not about you. You're being paid to pull yo

Re: xinerama ideas

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:49, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse [...] > > > >But another use is one user with xinerama. [...] > >What in the world would I use xinerama for? Not having > >had it, being small-minded, now I can't think of

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

> Total size with the install of Woody. the MySQL database, and the > webconent for the two domains we host: 890 MB FWIW I've installed sub 150MB debian installs. Of course there's a lot of stuff missing. Also, to elaborate, all programs (packages) installed are potential security holes. With

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