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2003-12-01 Thread Nick Lidakis
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Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Niko Efthymiou wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Are you running Debian X environment? > > If you are they have already setup an ssh-agent for your login. > > strange on my mashine (Debian/unstable) ssh-agent it isen't setup :/ > ssh-add just says: "Could not open a connection to your authenticati

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Vineet Kumar wrote: > On a sort of tangent, you can use your ~/.ssh/options to save yourself A small thing. It is ~/.ssh/config not options. Bob P.S. I double checked unstable just to make sure I was not missing something. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Joerg Johannes wrote: > http://www.cs.umd.edu/~arun/misc/ssh.html > but the one machine I tried so far asked me for my password even after > generating keys and copying to the machine over there. Can someboy help > me setting this up? Check the permissions of files. If they are group writable (de

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Mark! On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:34:39PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: I use lilo and reiserfs on / and it works just fine. AFAIK, grub also works with reiserfs and xfs, in addition to ext{2,3}. From the grub manual: |The currently supported filesystem types are BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and |FAT32,

Re: kaudiocreator problems

2003-12-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Jerry! On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:43:35PM +0100, jerry garcia wrote: I've just migrated from red hat 9 to debian sarge/sid, and am unable to get kaudiocreator to function. the error messeges are; < Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol

odd: gv *very* slow while view ps file from dvips

2003-12-01 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am compiling a latex source file(just 2 page resume) in Debian (Unstable) and when I try to magnify a certian area in the resulting ps file the new magnified widow of gv takes ages to come up. This behavior was not so in Redhat. In other words, same LaTeX file, same dvips command, but ma

Question

2003-12-01 Thread Francisco Verdin
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Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

2003-12-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 13:34 Subject: Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please! > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:59:34 -0500, > Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: SA, Debian Woody, Exim3, help

2003-12-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > (Please don't top post.) I'll try my best ;-) > > Maybe I'm being pedantic, but do you see it in ps? Here's what I see: > > # ps -eaf | grep spamd > root 27187 1 0 Oct24 ?00:00:17 /usr/sbin/spamd -m 10 -d > --pidfile=/var/run/spam

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

2003-12-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:24:47AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote > Here are my instructions for setting up a CD-RW drive on Debian. > Perhaps they will help. This sets up a very particular configuration. > You will have to adapt it for your installation. Thank you, thank you, thank you verrry ve

2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings, I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in include/linux/module.h:483 This results in having a lot of cruft in the kernel. Is this

Re: trouble while compiling xv

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:46:28PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > and I am trying to compile xv(xv-3.10a) and get this error: > > #- I don't think I've seen that one, and I've been building xv locally for some time now. ^_^ I assume you're trying to build it from the s

Re: EXT3 File system recovery

2003-12-01 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:58:37 -0500 "Matthew Kopishke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am in desperate need of help. I had two 60gb disks running in a > RAID 1 using a Promise FastTrack IDE RAID card and the linux ATARaid > support with a EXT3 FS (2.4.18). Over the weekend, as far as I

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Tom Vier said on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:41:21PM -0500: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a > > seperate boot partition? > > yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2.

Windows character sets and Linux

2003-12-01 Thread Paul M Foster
I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I believe this is a problem with character sets in Windows versus Linux. I'm assuming that if I include the proper "locale" in Linux, this problem will go away. Does a

EXT3 File system recovery

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Kopishke
Hi All,   I am in desperate need of help.  I had two 60gb disks running in a RAID 1 using a Promise FastTrack IDE RAID card and the linux ATARaid support with a EXT3 FS (2.4.18).  Over the weekend, as far as I can tell, one of the drive died (it just clicks now) so the file system went read

Re: Quake 3 Arena is buggy

2003-12-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, at 13:21 +0100, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > Hello! > > I've recently installed Xfree86 4.3 running on Debian Woody. > And the graphics is very very buggy right now, is there anyway > I can fix this or do I haveto downgrade to Xfree86 4.1? > Quake3 worked without problems with

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Nick Welch
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:59:18PM -0500, charlie derr wrote: > Tom Vier wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. > > I don't think this is completely true. I'm using lilo and / is ext3 (i > have no

trouble while compiling xv

2003-12-01 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am running Woody (ustable perhaps; I am new to Debiain so not sure hoe to specify this, but I dist-upgraded from Woddy): ~# uname -a Linux bijli 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux and I am trying to compile xv(xv-3.10a) and get this error: #---

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, at 14:40 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > And that was my previous question. Would 2.4.23 have *all* the > "Debian patches" the kernel-source-2.4.20 refers to? Yes. This issue was fixed in the upstream 2.4.23 kernel, so compiling your own kernel from the stable vanilla sources

Re: 2.4.23 in unstable?

2003-12-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, at 14:11 -0800, Tom wrote: > I'm sure you're all reading the Slashdot article right now. > > Since 2.4.23 does not appear to be in unstable, should we all go out > and download it ourselves? Yes. It's very simple; just compile your own kernel and package it for yourself s

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread charlie derr
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 02:41 GMT, Tom Vier penned: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a seperate boot partition? yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only rea

Re: improving security on a home server

2003-12-01 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:30:06 +0100, Benedict Verheyen escreveu: > i was wondering how i could secure it better. The first tip is, before thinking about adding anything, remove. AIDE and SAINT are nice because they help you check what to remove. Only after doing that and

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 02:41 GMT, Tom Vier penned: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: >> Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do >> you like a seperate boot partition? > > yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. > Od

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:24, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 01:28 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > > > > / and /var are machine critical. Let us remember I come from Huge > > Enterprise setups. Let's just suppose You are a developer writing a > > PL/SQL 300-way innerjoin. Those tempo

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread charlie derr
Tom Vier wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a seperate boot partition? yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. I don't think this is completely true. I'm using

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > Let's do some benchmarking > I have a PIV 2.8 ghz (800 mhz fsb), 1 gig ddr 400 ram and an geforce fx 5900 > ultra with 256 meg ram. When running X at 1600x1200 resolution I get about > 4800 fps in glxgears Ok, you are making me

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Arnt Karlsen: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:08:20 -0700, > Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > scripsit Paul E Condon: > > > > > I run Mutt in a Multi-Gnome-Terminal window. When I use the mouse to > > > pass the cursor over a URL in the email te

Kmail receiving problems

2003-12-01 Thread theo
All, Need some help with my kmail client. I have just installed the debian distribution and also the exim mailer. Although exim seems to be working correctly in receiving and sending mail, Kmail seems to be acting inconsistently. I have two account on my debian box One for the root and also a user

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Paul E Condon: > For someone who already understands what PATH is and has well formed > ideas as to how he wants to work, it is easy to change. Debian, or any > other OS, would have a hard time stopping you. It so easy to change, > for the skilled user, that it is hard to argue that it s

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 23:17 GMT, Hoyt Bailey penned: >> > My system runs fsck after 37 mounts without a filesystem check. > Thanks monique for removing your previous sig. It made me want to CC > you. Hoyt > =P -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 01:28 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > > / and /var are machine critical. Let us remember I come from Huge > Enterprise setups. Let's just suppose You are a developer writing a > PL/SQL 300-way innerjoin. Those temporary files get written to /tmp. > For those of us running non-

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Tom Vier
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a > seperate boot partition? yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2. -- Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA -- To

PATH statement in X

2003-12-01 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Where are all the places the PATH is set when you are using X-Window (kdm)? Problem is, when I log in from the console, I get this path: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games when I open a xterm, and do echo $PATH, I get this: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin

installing a pci nic with debain 3

2003-12-01 Thread *.*
so i found out the driver i need for a dlink is rtl8139... debian has it and when i run modprobe ("modprobe rtl8139") 0it says that the device / resource is busy the card is in fully and its not in use... whats up with that?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:19:08PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:52:52 + > Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM" > > (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP > > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context fo

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:39, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Greg Folkert said on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:19:12PM -0500: > > root should only be enough to boot with... > > > > /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that) > > /bin = 3.5MB > > /sbin = 3MB > > /lib = 35MB > > /dev = 128KB > > /root = 15

Re: ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:47:40PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm trying to move from the OS radeon driver to the ATI fglrx one, to > >get better 3D support. I've built the module and installed it, but 3D > >performance is no better. fglrxinfo says: > > >

Question on Perl modules

2003-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm trying to understand *why* a package was downgraded: I was installing Bricolage that depends on a bunch of Perl modules, one of which is libclass-container-perl. In debian sid there is: $ apt-cache show libclass-container-perl | grep Filename Filename: pool/main/libc/libclass-container-

Install Debian over loopfs-based Linux

2003-12-01 Thread Lynn W
If a person has a loop file system Linux already running (say in a large file in FAT32 e.g. Peanut Linux), how can she install Debian over it without booting from the Debian install CDs? The reason is, when one boots from the Debian CD, the loopfs is no longer visible to the installer to be spec

Re: Geological tracking application

2003-12-01 Thread David A. De Graaf
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:41:18AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is anyone aware of Linux-based application capable of proving visual > geographical tracking? > > To be more specific: > We are a fishing company. Every daily we receive reports from our > vessels about their location, water te

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 13:23 Subject: Re: unchecked 31 times > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 19:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Greg Folkert said on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:19:12PM -0500: > root should only be enough to boot with... > /etc = 45MB (with GConf taking 30MB of that) > /bin = 3.5MB > /sbin = 3MB > /lib = 35MB > /dev = 128KB > /root = 15MB or so > /proc = null > /tmp = 50K or so (not a separate filesystem

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-01 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 15:07]: > [...] Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote[...]: > > scripsit Paul E Condon: > > > I run Mutt in a Multi-Gnome-Terminal window. When I use the mouse to > > > pass the cursor over a URL in the email text, that URL is magically > > > underline

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 16:20, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 20:29 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > >> >=20 > >>=20 Wouldn't this require rebooting first, or something, in order to > >>fsck the root partition? > > > > the root partition should be small anyway. 200MB or so. Those that

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Re: De l'or pour vous

2003-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:37:02 CET, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Je SUIS M. N'Djoré kouassi. J'ai une minerai d'or au Ghana. Je > possède actuellement 1000 kg d'or à un prix abordable. Si vous êtes > intéressés, veuillez me contacter pour pluis de détails. ..one ton

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

2003-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 16:01:06 -0500, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tty[/]# apt-get install --reinstall xserver-common > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree...

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-12-01 Thread Paul Worrall
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:13:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Is there any functionality in mutt, or a good way to implement it in > mutt, that allows you to killfile with roughly the same flexibility > that tin gives you for news? > I haven't actually tried it but you could probably do somethi

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:36:55PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > scripsit Paul E Condon: > > > An OS should be configured to help a user avoid shooting himself in > > the foot. To this end $HOME/bin should be at the *end* of the PATH. > > This way, a new user who makes truly foolish name choise

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

2003-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:10:06 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:59:34PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined ab

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:08:20 -0700, Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > scripsit Paul E Condon: > > > I run Mutt in a Multi-Gnome-Terminal window. When I use the mouse to > > pass the cursor over a URL in the email text, that URL is magically > > underline

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:44:15PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:51:14 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Wichert's post about the Debian hacked machines and the integer overflow > > in the Kernel talks about the 2.4.18 source package being updated. > > But my machines

Re: serial console options problem -- is a kernel or init problem?

2003-12-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've noticed the following problem on all of my Debian machines that are >set up for a serial console. It's a bug in bootlogd in the latest sysvinit. It's been fixed mostly in the sysvinit I have here, and bootlogd is also

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Thanasis Kinias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > scripsit Tom: > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:53:21AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > .. Elvis tripping on LSD with Nixon. > > > > s/with/in front of/ > > It's much funnier the other way... This was presumably the occasion when RMN make Elvis a special a

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?/Twists & Guage ?

2003-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:24:35PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: [suggestion of heavier guage wire for network] | Good thinking. | In legal building standards for example, the standards specified are | 'minimum required without having to go to jail.' | Going up one more guage in wire size does indee

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:52:23PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800 "Hereon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Request For Comment on: > > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > > and deactiv

xsane printer setup

2003-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I'm just getting started with xsane with an epson 2400 scanner and an epson c82 printer. I am using cups so the print command from the console is lp. The xsane copy works only if I use lpr for the print command and then the output is all black to green. Obviously I can fiddle with the color

Re: compromised servers

2003-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:15:08AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:20:43PM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:00:26AM -0600, red wrote: | > > Does anyone know anything else about the Compromise of the security | > > servers? | >

Re: ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Erik Steffl
Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to move from the OS radeon driver to the ATI fglrx one, to get better 3D support. I've built the module and installed it, but 3D performance is no better. fglrxinfo says: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org I thin

Re: ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:52:52 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (EE) fglrx(0): [agp] unable to acquire AGP, error "xf86_ENOMEM" > (EE) fglrx(0): cannot init AGP > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel > (II) fglrx(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0996000

Re: how to mount a zip drive

2003-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:05:46AM -0600, wrote: | Hi All: | |how in praytell do you mount a zip drive is there a way to do it | without recompiling linux? # mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip Well, assuming you have my old Compaq micro-tower (which you don't, my dad does) then your zip driv

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

2003-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:09:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [zealous snip] | debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information | available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2) Install libgnutls7, or install a different version if you have some version installed. (Hint: ins

2.4.23 in unstable?

2003-12-01 Thread Tom
I'm sure you're all reading the Slashdot article right now. Since 2.4.23 does not appear to be in unstable, should we all go out and download it ourselves? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

boot-floppies.tar.gz?

2003-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi list! I would like to understand Woody's dbootstrap, which I understand is hidden in boot-floppies.tar.gz. With packages.debian.org being down, I am having a heck of a time finding it. Anybody? Thanks! Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: lp print queue unclearable

2003-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:56:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine. but | now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious print queue | appears to be full. i /etc/init.d restart lpd several times, making | sure there are no

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-12-01 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday December 1 at 09:46am Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys still there? > I don't understand why Johann gets only 550 fps with a processor and > card similar to mine, should be twice as fast. The way glxgears is > run? I just said "glxgears". Yeah, I was pretty curiou

Re: ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to move from the OS radeon driver to the ATI fglrx one, to get better 3D support. I've built the module and installed it, but 3D performance is no better. fglrxinfo says: Why? I get 25% better performance with DRI drivers on my Radeon 9000. -Roberto p

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Niko Efthymiou
Greg Folkert wrote: > Are you running Debian X environment? > If you are they have already setup an ssh-agent for your login. > > run: ssh-add for you various keys... and voila you are good. > > You still have to enter the passphrase initially for each key, but then > after which you don't. strang

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:51:14 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Wichert's post about the Debian hacked machines and the integer overflow > in the Kernel talks about the 2.4.18 source package being updated. > But my machines are all using the package: > > kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linux kernel source

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 20:29 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: >> >=20 >>=20 Wouldn't this require rebooting first, or something, in order to >>fsck the root partition? > > the root partition should be small anyway. 200MB or so. Those that > have one single 200GB root partition are asking for trouble...

kaudiocreator problems

2003-12-01 Thread jerry garcia
Hi all. I've just migrated from red hat 9 to debian sarge/sid, and am unable to get kaudiocreator to function. the error messeges are; < Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'audiocd'. > I get this for each track I've selected to

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Geoff Bagley
> One of the things I thoroughly dislike about unices is that anybody and > his mother who thinks he is able to write a program, think they have > the god given right to bother a whole system with his fscked up s**t, > ie. 'adjust' the whole environment for some particular program. Once upon a

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Randy Orrison
Paul Morgan wrote: The key in any case is to protect your /usr/local... from anyone except root writing to it, and also not to put current directory in root's path. Excellent idea. Too bad debian doesn't do that out of the box. /usr/local... doesn't exist so non-admins can put commands in there;

Fonts for MathML in Mozilla

2003-12-01 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, What is the best way to install the fonts needed[1] to properly display MathML in Mozilla and other Gecko-based applications while sticking with the Debian (sid) way of handling fonts? Bug #146605[2] deals with this but is not fixed yet. Thanks in advance for any help and pointers to documen

Re: Quake 3 Arena is buggy

2003-12-01 Thread CiAsA S'Nuey Boark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday December 01 2003 07:21 am, Bjorn Johansson wrote: > I've recently installed Xfree86 4.3 running on Debian Woody. > And the graphics is very very buggy right now, is there anyway > I can fix this or do I haveto downgrade to Xfree86 4.1? > Quak

Re: Compiling openafs-modules under 2.4.22

2003-12-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Just to follow up on this, take a look at bug # 220600 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220600) which is about my problem. The fix suggested by Sam Hartman worked for me. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.ed

Re: creating password for a shadow file

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:59, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I need to add users to a passwd/shadow file, but these files does not > reside in /etc dir. Thus I can not use the adduser or useradd tool to > add the users, because then they will be added to the /etc/passwd|shadow > file, and my passwd/shad

De l'or pour vous

2003-12-01 Thread dakin
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Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

2003-12-01 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a tty[/]# apt-get install --reinstall xserver-common > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, re-installation of xserver-common is not possible, it \ > cannot be downloaded. > 0 packages upgraded

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:23:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Is it just ext3, or do all journalling file systems obviate the need for > fsck? IIRC, ext3 is slower than the other options because it has a more > complete journal ... but I may be totally wrong. > > Just to be a pain, I might p

Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:07:29AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > can you reproduce the macros and the relevant parts of your > procmailrc? wouldl ove to have this! It's not pretty... and no doubt a dozen people will tell me how to do it better... Not my original creation... I got it off the 'net so

ATI driver problem

2003-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'm trying to move from the OS radeon driver to the ATI fglrx one, to get better 3D support. I've built the module and installed it, but 3D performance is no better. fglrxinfo says: display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa

[DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-01 Thread Bill Moseley
Once again I'm not clear about a security posting. Wichert's post about the Debian hacked machines and the integer overflow in the Kernel talks about the 2.4.18 source package being updated. But my machines are all using the package: kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.20

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit John Smith: > > One good reason why that behaviour is evil is that I may want to install > > custom versions of utils without messing with /bin or /usr/bin. That's > > what /usr/local is for, after all. > > One of the things I thoroughly dislike about unices is that anybody > and his mot

Re: dhclient

2003-12-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:35:33AM -0700, user list wrote: > socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and > CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration. You need to enable both, otherwise dhclient doesn't work. DHCP v3 is supposed to address this. > So I looked at the

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Paul E Condon: > An OS should be configured to help a user avoid shooting himself in > the foot. To this end $HOME/bin should be at the *end* of the PATH. > This way, a new user who makes truly foolish name choises for his > first few programs, is not cut off from critical parts of the O

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:33, David Z Maze wrote: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: > >> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy > >>> to disable the period

serial console options problem -- is a kernel or init problem?

2003-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Layton
I've noticed the following problem on all of my Debian machines that are set up for a serial console. This includes several 2.4 kernel revs and at least 1 2.6.0-test kernel rev. This leads me to think that this might not be a kernel problem, but a sysvinit issue. If anyone can point me in the right

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:14, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Thanasis Kinias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 11:03]: > > BTW, if someone has compromised your system to the extent of being able > > to put a trojaned passwd in /usr/local/bin, he can put it in /usr/bin, > > too. > > Not necessarily. In order to

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:10, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 18:53 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: > > > >>=20 Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a > >>journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by > >>disabling boot-time fsck? =2

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Tom: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:53:21AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > .. Elvis tripping on LSD with Nixon. > > s/with/in front of/ It's much funnier the other way... -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State Un

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: > I have my notebook, where my user account is called "jorg". On the > university ne

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:37:48PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > > Ja, if a user is competent to be building custom binaries, he or she > should be able to add $HOME/bin to $PATH. > An OS should be configured to help a user avoid shooting himself in the foot. To this end $HOME/bin should be at

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-01 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Paul E Condon: > I run Mutt in a Multi-Gnome-Terminal window. When I use the mouse to > pass the cursor over a URL in the email text, that URL is magically > underlined. Then, what used to happen before the upgrade, when I press > ctrl and left-click, the browser opens with the URL in the

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:31:22 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:52:12PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:44:38 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> > I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody over the weekend. >> > Part of the switch was changing from Galeon to >>

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread John Smith
> One good reason why that behaviour is evil is that I may want to install > custom versions of utils without messing with /bin or /usr/bin. That's > what /usr/local is for, after all. One of the things I thoroughly dislike about unices is that anybody and his mother who thinks he is able to wri

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-01 Thread Tom
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