Xine quicktime stream issue

2004-07-09 Thread Caveman
Hi, I have been using the kaffeine-mozilla plugin to play streams in my web browser (firefox) This has been fine tell the otherday, for no apparent reason streams are failing to play. Kaffeine just sits there saying "Connecting HTTP Server". I thought maybe it was a issue with kaffeine, so I in

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
On Friday 09 July 2004 03:05 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm running a computer lab for a kids/teen center, and am using both > Squid and Dansguardian. I've got Squidguard installed but not > configured, more to follow. And I use iptables for some stuff. Are there any idiot friendly docs for t

El Precio de la gasolina

2004-07-09 Thread Claudia Patricia Quintero
> > > EL PRECIO DE LA GASOLINA > > > > INFORMACIÓN MUY IMPORTANTE > > > > HAGAMOS EL EJERCICIO, YA QUE NO PERDEMOS NADA Y SI PUEDE SER UN MEDIO DE > > PRESION > > > > Esta propuesta me llego por correo y me parece sensata, igual tenemos que > a > > comprarle gasolina a alguien. > > > > Me acaba

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:40:09 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:00:30PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > > > Mozilla and friends can generate PostScript directly, or they can > > depend on Xprint to do so. It is the latter which has been disabled. > > The former works well fo

Re: KDE printer interface problem

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
> Is this related to the failure of OpenOffice writer > to print the document? I rather doubt it. > How do I diagnose this problem? I'd start at CUPS and work back. http://localhost:631/printers Try printing a test page. You may need to purge old jobs left over from aborted attempts to get t

Re: Hotkeys при русской раскладке в X

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
> Wondering about my last sentence: when I use KDE with an english GUI, it > expects the hotkeys in english and I cant switch the hotkeys without > changing the language. Right? So working with a complete russian > environment should work... (?) > Should be the same problem for all i18n programs

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
> /sbin/shutdown file, or better yet, redirect the new /sbin/shutdown file > to /sbin/shutdown.real instead? Is that possible? You already have the answer you seek about dpkg-divert. It works well. While your problem is certainly solved, I thought I'd throw out a suggestion anyway. One thing

Re: Dissapering SubDirectorys????

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
> I have however found that "ls -d" doesn't seem to be working for me? Are you using it correctly? It will only show the directory you tell it to show. ls -d foo will show the directory foo. ls -d or ls -d * will not do what you probably expect. If you want to list just the directories, try

Re: force check on boot

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
On Friday 09 July 2004 10:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /dev/hda1 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced. > > I'm getting this every time I boot my system. When I shut down, I do > either exit or logout, and then manually shut down the laptop. Laptop is > a Dell c610. How do I fix this? Ho

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is one case where I'm glad that I am using the binary builds from mozilla.org and not the .deb in Testing. Perhaps it was just the way I read the BTS comments, but it seemed like the PS security claim was more-or-less cover for the real reason PS was cut out and XPrint put. Apparently, the P

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Silvan
On Friday 09 July 2004 10:41 pm, Paul Tsai wrote: > ok, so I compiled it from source and did a make install. However there > is no gui available. In red hat there was a mplayer-gui package and I don't think anyone mentioned that you can also snag kplayer from there. I think that's where I got

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Paul Tsai
Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:41:53PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. ok, so I compiled it from source and did a make install. However there i

Re: eth0 does not remain

2004-07-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 23:00, disciple wrote: > When I do lsmod, the nic driver shows up (3c59x). eth0 section missing > when I do ifconfig. > When I do # ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ... > the NIC works and eth0 section also shows when I do # ifconfig. > When I

Re: list of windows in wmaker: how to repair

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- NikZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I have Debian 3.0 r2 installed on my computer. As window-manager Repeating messages will not expedite an answer. Patience is your virtue here. Use it in good faith, and wait. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.ne

list of windows in wmaker: how to repair

2004-07-09 Thread NikZ
Hello. I have Debian 3.0 r2 installed on my computer. As window-manager I use window-maker that comes with woody + security updates. I have noticed some thing, maybe a bug: after starting wmaker, its list of windows (middle-button on default-conf) appears as "unactivated" - all windows that I op

Re: eth0 does not remain

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- disciple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I do lsmod, the nic driver shows up (3c59x). eth0 section missing > when I do ifconfig. > When I do # ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ... > > the NIC works and eth0 section also shows when I do # ifconfig. > When I

Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan

2004-07-09 Thread Adam Aube
Michael B Allen wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:21:43 -0400 > Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > Hello i need your help i try to connect to my windows lan, with samba >> > in KDE -debian but i don`t find the icon samba to connect it >> >> Samba is the und

eth0 does not remain

2004-07-09 Thread disciple
When I do lsmod, the nic driver shows up (3c59x). eth0 section missing when I do ifconfig. When I do # ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.0.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 ... the NIC works and eth0 section also shows when I do # ifconfig. When I reboot, the settings for eth0 disappear. How do I mak

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:45:49PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: | On Friday 09 July 2004 9:18 am, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: | > By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security | > issues? | | IIRC, some wrote a nethack game entirely in postscript; so if it isn't | Turing-complete,

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:09:06PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: | On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:18:30PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | > OTOH, maybe the postscript code in mozilla itself has a security hole. But | > the right thing to do would be to *fix* that instead, not to drop it. | | Qu

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:41:53PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: > I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , > which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. > ok, so I compiled it from source and did a make install. However there > is no gui availabl

Re: why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:33:21PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: | What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs | is deprecated. Backwards compatibility, I imagine. Some people started using devfs with the 2.4 kernels and their system would break without it. Having it as an

Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan

2004-07-09 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: > apt-cache search "samba" | grep "browser" The pipe to grep is actually unnecessary - just a habit I've gotten into somehow (and should break). This returns the same results: apt-cache search samba browser Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. There are unofficial debian packages available for mplayer. Look here (and follow dpkg's loving advice): | add deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main to your sources.

Re: A7N8X Integrated NIC

2004-07-09 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:40:24PM -0700, Raymond Kim wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've installed Debian Linux via the network installation CD, however > Debian does not recognize the integrated NIC on the A7N8X motherboard. So > now I am in a pickle. I looked on the NVIDIA site for the drivers but t

Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan

2004-07-09 Thread Michael B Allen
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:21:43 -0400 Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hello i need your help i try to connect to my windows lan, with samba in > > KDE -debian but i don`t find the icon samba to connect it > > Samba is the underlying software, not the GUI fronte

Re: Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:41:53 -0400 Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , > which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. Hello, Try adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and re

Mplayer Anyone?

2004-07-09 Thread Paul Tsai
I am looking for a good general purpose media player, like Mplayer , which does everything I want. However, there is no debian package. ok, so I compiled it from source and did a make install. However there is no gui available. In red hat there was a mplayer-gui package and that was all th

Re: Gnome configuration

2004-07-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:04:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am trying to make a configuration change in Gnome, but I'm not > sure where I should look to make the change. > > My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of > mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for th

Re: looking for icon samba to conect windows lan

2004-07-09 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello i need your help i try to connect to my windows lan, with samba in > KDE -debian but i don`t find the icon samba to connect it Samba is the underlying software, not the GUI frontend. You didn't mention what version of Debian you are using, but in Unstable, I searc

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the right way to specify a service that only has start but no > stop? station:~# update-rc.d local start 80 2 3 4 5 . Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/local ... /etc/rc2.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local /etc/rc3.d/S80local -> ../init.d/l

Re: dpkg returns 'uninitialized values' in debconf perl5 modules

2004-07-09 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:03:40AM +0200, mi wrote: > Hello, > > (please cc to me, i'm not on the list) > > I can't remove the dictionary 'wamerican' nor can i reinstall or upgrade it. > Two examples: > > / r: dpkg -r wamerican > (Reading database ... 50317 files and directories currently insta

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:25:07 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> # update-rc.d local defaults start 80 >> update-rc.d: error: codenumber must be a number between 0 and 99 > > update-rc.d local defaults 80 Come on, Thomas, I notice that you seldom read people's posting closely. What I was asking was:

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Ian Douglas
Well caught. I was only trying to find what could be the original claim ;-) After reading what I found, I was thinking of an inclusion of a postscript file or a user sending it to print through the browser, not HTML rendered by the browser... On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:44, Alan Shutko wrote: > I

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread Adam Aube
* Tong* wrote: > Q: In RedHat, the chkconfig can also be used to generate a code >skeleton that have start/stop, etc. Can we do it in debian? update-rc.d would be the equivalent tool. > Q: what is the right way to specify a service that >only has start but no stop? Make the script do no

fetchmail and syslog

2004-07-09 Thread Ryo Furue
Hello all, I'm wondering if someone could help me with how to keep fetchmail from logging to /var/syslog. I read the manpages of both fetchmail and syslog, but still don't understand. When invoked with the --syslog option, fetchmail uses syslog: [...] Messages are logged with a

Gnome configuration

2004-07-09 Thread Paul E Condon
I am trying to make a configuration change in Gnome, but I'm not sure where I should look to make the change. My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for this because email hot links to web pages are highlighted and underlined *a

Re: postfix + mysql

2004-07-09 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:14:09 +0200 Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, when I start postfix I get this in my logs: > > Jul 10 00:38:01 srv1 postfix/master[32687]: daemon started -- version > 2.1.3 Jul 10 00:38:01 srv1 postfix/qmgr[32691]: B1D3931313: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=333,

Re: Problems with X11 fowarding in ssh on unstable machine

2004-07-09 Thread Johnny
I've got a new install of unstable, and I've changedd /etc/ssh/sshd_config so thta the X11 line reads: X11Forwarding yes But when I ssh in, I still have no DISPLAy variable set. The machine I'm ssh in from works for this on other machines. I've restartd the sshd task. What else do I need to check

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why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Richard Weil
What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs is deprecated. Simply ignoring it would seem fine, but ... a bug report was filed against initrd-tools because it won't work with root raid on a system on which you're not using devfs. I was glad to see this bug report because I'

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # update-rc.d local defaults start 80 > update-rc.d: error: codenumber must be a number between 0 and 99 update-rc.d local defaults 80 -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http:/

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Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 23:44:07 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> % update-rc.d local defaults 80-start >> update-rc.d: error: codenumber must be a number between 0 and 99 >> usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove >>update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] > > RTFM would help here. You're almost t

Re: Top-Posting (WAS: Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?)

2004-07-09 Thread anlace
> Personally I prefer throwing this out from time to time: > > http://tinyurl.com/35hv7 Thanks for this, it's good to be reminded from time to time of posting etiquette especially since it's been years since I've been on a news list. Gail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 9:18 am, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security > issues? IIRC, some wrote a nethack game entirely in postscript; so if it isn't Turing-complete, its darn close. -- How dare the government intervene to stifle innova

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 5:00 pm, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Mozilla and friends can generate PostScript directly, or they can depend > on Xprint to do so. It is the latter which has been disabled. The former > works well for some and poorly to not at all for others (myself included). Um, I think you

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:00:30PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Mozilla and friends can generate PostScript directly, or they can depend > on Xprint to do so. It is the latter which has been disabled. The former > works well for some and poorly to not at all for others (myself included). I be

Re: Top-Posting (WAS: Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?)

2004-07-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Thomas Adam wrote: > Absolutely. To be able to see the flow of conversation, rather than seeing > a paragraph at the top of an e-maikl, out of context is far more > preferrable. To which, I urge anyone who thinks of top-posting to read the > following that was taken from the LUG I am a member of:

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > gutenbergs tests with gocr and other open source OCR programs. great pointer. I guess the conclusion here is that gocr and clara pretty much suck and for a

postfix + mysql

2004-07-09 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi everybody, I am struggling with this one for hours now. Google doesn't help me anymore. I feel like I want to tear the hair out of my head. Maybe someone might be able to help on this one. I am trying to setup Postfix + MySQL, according to lots of HOWTO's, but most closely according to this on

Anjuta and broken autogen.sh

2004-07-09 Thread Elliot English
Whenever I autogenerate any projects in Anjuta I get the following output: Auto generating the Project: testaja ... ./autogen.sh **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments. If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the `./autogen.sh' command line. processing . Runnin

Top-Posting (WAS: Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?)

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please note that top-quoting is not the preferred quoting method for > mailing lists and newsgroups. By placing your replies after relevant I cannot agree more with this, Monique, but you and I (and others) both know that such suggestions wil

Customer Care/CCD/RBG/EBC is out of the office.

2004-07-09 Thread customer . care
I will be out of the office from 07/10/2004 until 07/11/2004. Greetings! Thank you for your message. The hours of service of our Internet Interaction Unit is Mondays through Fridays 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Greater Manila Time. We will be glad to respond to your e-mail on the next business day. Have

Re: update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > % update-rc.d local defaults 80-start > update-rc.d: error: codenumber must be a number between 0 and 99 > usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] remove >update-rc.d [-n] defaults [NN | sNN kNN] RTFM would help here. You're almost there but you need to s

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:15:28AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.2221 +0200]: > > Correct - if you want searchable text you need some OCR filter. > > I've used gocr with some, moderate, success, but it's by no means > > perfect. Others hav

update-rc.d usage

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
Q: In RedHat, the chkconfig can also be used to generate a code skeleton that have start/stop, etc. Can we do it in debian? Q: what is the right way to specify a service that only has start but no stop? I just can't get it right. from the man page it is: ,- | update-rc.d [-n] name de

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:30:12 +0200, Dale Amon wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > OTOH, maybe the postscript code in mozilla itself has a security hole. > > But the right thing to do would be to *fix* that instead, not to drop > > it. > > Question: are you saying that Mozilla bas

dpkg segmentation fault

2004-07-09 Thread Christopher Parker
Hello all, I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking debconf (and probably other programs). It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC temporarily fixed this problem. However, now if I try to install the latest unstable

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.2221 +0200]: > Correct - if you want searchable text you need some OCR filter. > I've used gocr with some, moderate, success, but it's by no means > perfect. Others have recommended clara, which is probably better > but requires too much use

Re: Prepare the Debian kernel-source, modversions.h

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Thomas, > > are you saying that I don't need kernel-source at all, and > merely the correct kernel-header would be enough? Should be. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- ht

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

2004-07-09 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > Thanks! Yes, that's essentially what I'm after. > > I don't have an "apt.preferences" file... I'll generate one as you > suggest. I read what docs. I found on the "apt.preferences" file, and > couldn't figure out how it would fix my priority problem wit

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

2004-07-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all of you for your input. I'm going to play with squidguardian for the moment, until I find a slightly newer computer in a garbage can somewhere and pull in the other filters as well. That and/or more memory (almost more expensive than current stuff locally). New project, new stuff

Re: printer icon

2004-07-09 Thread Stephen Touset
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:45, Bill & Shirley Borel wrote: > Have lost the printer icon on the tool bar. Thanks. Keep us updated. -- Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: question about kernel 2.6

2004-07-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: do_clean := NO to your /etc/kernel-pkg.conf Then, it won't clean the tree prior to starting a make. Now you can do it the Debian way and not worry about wasting too much time. Well, that will be a huge help! I s

Re: keyboard does not work under X,but mouse works...??

2004-07-09 Thread Alejandro Matos
> > Hi all > > I am using a Debian system(2.4.20 kernel),P4 1.8 GHz > 256 MB RAM/40 GB HDD and standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse. > My machine is shared by several users though I retain the root access. > > Normally I don't shut down my machine.I just log off. > Today when I tried logging in

Re: Prepare the Debian kernel-source, modversions.h

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:32:31 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But when I compile my pctel modem driver, I get the "no >> modversions.h file found" error: >> >> $ ./configure -auto > > > Install the 'kernel-header--1-' package, where: > > is the version

About emacs

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
Hi, I don't like Emacs' default Windose scrollbar behavior, and want to restore it to its X-windows default, just like that of xterm's. I believe in order to do so, I need to recompile Emacs from source. So, two questions here: - I believe that there must be many long term Debian/Emacs users

Re: Using Debian / iptables to block outbound MSIE via headers?

2004-07-09 Thread Adam Aube
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Are there any tools which can block outbound web traffic via headers? > I've taken steps to minimize users' use of MSIE, but it's still possible > to acccess it on desktops > I pretty clearly can't stop 'em at the desktop. I suspect I can block > the traffic via the hea

Re: 2.6.7 boot problem

2004-07-09 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Martin Dickopp wrote: Yohann Desquerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i tried to boot my debian on a 2.6.7 that i just compile ( reiserfs compile as module, my root fs is in reisefs), i installed lvm2 and make an initrd image with : mkinitrd -o kernel-2.6.7.img 2.6.7 i got this messages : Cpio : /e

Re: Prepare the Debian kernel-source, modversions.h

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when I compile my pctel modem driver, I get the "no > modversions.h file found" error: > > $ ./configure -auto Install the 'kernel-header--1-' package, where: is the version of your kernel, and is the architecture type, be it 386,486, etc. Also,

list of windows in wmaker

2004-07-09 Thread NikZ
Hello. I have Debian 3.0 r2 installed on my computer. As window-manager I use window-maker that comes with woody + security updates. I have noticed some thing, maybe a bug: after starting wmaker, its list of windows (middle-button on default-conf) appears as "unactivated" - all windows that I op

Prepare the Debian kernel-source, modversions.h

2004-07-09 Thread * Tong*
Hi, I'm preparing my Debian kernel-source so that I can compile my pctel modem driver. I've done the kernel-source-preparing before in RedHat, basically: make mrproper # get the configuration file ready, then make dep But when I compile my pctel modem driver, I get the "no modversions.h file

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:18:30PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > OTOH, maybe the postscript code in mozilla itself has a security hole. But > the right thing to do would be to *fix* that instead, not to drop it. Question: are you saying that Mozilla based browsers (eg Galeon) can no

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

2004-07-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:39:35PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Michael B Allen_, on 07/09/04 04:50,typed: > > > > >Note a good way to setup the shell environment in X so you can run java > >and javac on the commandline is to start the session manager through a > >login shell by changing: >

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.1752 +0200]: > > I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and > > can be connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under > > debian, using the SANE backends, although

Re: conversion from lindows to debian

2004-07-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:13:22 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My question. Looking over the system, I should be able to add > > sarge/testing to her /etc/apt/sources.list, and update/upgrade the > > system with little or n

Using Debian / iptables to block outbound MSIE via headers?

2004-07-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
Are there any tools which can block outbound web traffic via headers? I've taken steps to minimize users' use of MSIE, but it's still possible to acccess it on desktops: - Through the 'run' dialog. - Through the legacy MS Windows Explorer (file mangler) by entering a URL. - Through ap

Re: conversion from lindows to debian

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question. Looking over the system, I should be able to add > sarge/testing to her /etc/apt/sources.list, and update/upgrade the > system with little or no problems. Yes, but essentially I would replace them entirely, so that you do not mix th

conversion from lindows to debian

2004-07-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
A lady friend just bought a computer from our local "fry's" with lindows installed. I notice that it is "VERY" loosely based on debian.. So far it has found all of the hardware, and hopefully will find a "new" wifi card, when it arrives. I plan on removing lindows specific stuff as she gets onlin

Re: restoring mbr

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however) > as root try > > # dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10 You're making up command options, as well as devices now? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10 *BUT* even then, that

Re: restoring mbr

2004-07-09 Thread Patrick Ouellette
boot into linux (a rescue CD / Knoppix, however) as root try # dd -if =/dev/zerol -of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=10 This will totally blank the first 5K of space on the drive. The "leftovers" from the linux boot loader sometimes confuse Windows' installer. Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two hard

Re: udev question

2004-07-09 Thread Sam Halliday
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sam Halliday writes: > > however... there is one major problem! instead of creating the link to > > /dev/input/mouseX, it is creating to the link to /dev/input/ts2, which > > does not appear to be a valid mouse device. how can i fix it? (ts2 > > appears only when the usb m

Re: udev question

2004-07-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however... there is one major problem! instead of creating the link to > /dev/input/mouseX, it is creating to the link to /dev/input/ts2, which > does not appear to be a valid mouse device. how can i fix it? (ts2 > appears only when the usb mouse is plugg

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

2004-07-09 Thread Nathan J. Malmberg
Ken Long wrote: I have a question that I hope someone can help me with. As some background, we had a problem where every once in a very long while, someone (usually me O:) ) would get a little ahead of themselves and issue a shutdown command to shut down the system they were logged in on. Problem

Re: 2.6.7 boot problem

2004-07-09 Thread Martin Dickopp
Yohann Desquerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i tried to boot my debian on a 2.6.7 that i just compile ( reiserfs > compile as module, my root fs is in reisefs), i installed lvm2 and make > an initrd image with : > > mkinitrd -o kernel-2.6.7.img 2.6.7 > > > i got this messages : > > Cpio : /etc/m

Re: restoring mbr

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and tried a lilo -U, but nothing has worked. Read: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/LostLILO -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "

restoring mbr

2004-07-09 Thread Paul Maser
I have two hard disks that I used for linux and now I'm trying to use them with Windows, but with both drives the computer (Dell) cannot see the hard drive as bootable. It comes up with the error message "Primary hard disk drive cannot be found." The BIOS recognizes the hard drive and I can instal

Roland Vinyl Cutter

2004-07-09 Thread anlace
Greetings, Has anyone out there had any experience with using a Roland Camm-1 PNC-960 vinyl cutter in Debian Linux? Or for that matter any other kind of vinyl cutter. I am considering purchasing a sign making business and would prefer to run it from Linux as I do everything else. Thanks for

Re: 2.6.7 boot problem

2004-07-09 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Looks like you deleted the /lib/modules/modprobe.conf file, you will have to restore it and then run mkinitrd -o... -ishwar On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Yohann Desquerre wrote: > Hi all, > > > i tried to boot my debian on a 2.6.7 that i just compile ( reiserfs > compile as module, my root fs is in reise

Re: apt-get update:"Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-07-09 Thread Thomas Adam
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Jochen Demuth wrote: > > | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room And to think I was only talking about FAQs recently. Sigh, sigh, sigh. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://

Re: question about kernel 2.6

2004-07-09 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:04:13PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > do_clean := NO > > to your /etc/kernel-pkg.conf > > Then, it won't clean the tree prior to starting a make. Now you can do > it the Debian way and not worry about wasting too much time. Well, that will be a huge help! I suspect

2.6.7 boot problem

2004-07-09 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Hi all, i tried to boot my debian on a 2.6.7 that i just compile ( reiserfs compile as module, my root fs is in reisefs), i installed lvm2 and make an initrd image with : mkinitrd -o kernel-2.6.7.img 2.6.7 i got this messages : Cpio : /etc/modprobe.conf : no suche file or directory Cpio : /lib/m

Re: Autocomplete

2004-07-09 Thread Philipp Weis
On 09 Jul 2004, Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is any familiar with the console feature that narrows the tab > completion. For instance if you type tar and hit tab, it will only > return the valid files with appropriate extensions, not every file in > the directory. I believe it was a fea

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread Jeff Smith
Another option is the HP OfficeJet 7130. I have one, it can be used either with USB or network (with card), and is one of their all-in one. Fully supported by HP on Linux (Open Source, even), both scanning and printing. Have had no problems at all with it, works great. I don't have your neat

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.09.1752 +0200]: > I use an Epson SU1640 Office, which includes a document feeder and > can be connected via either USB or SCSI. It works fine under > debian, using the SANE backends, although the one put out by epson > (the "epkowa" driver) wo

Re: m4a (mpeg4) audio console player

2004-07-09 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:10:25AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Are there any mp4 (m4a) console players > in debian? > > Lance > Faad should be able to play your MP4 audio files, but it's not in Debian. But Faad, mplayer and some other packages are available from Christian Marillat's "Unoffic

Re: apt-get update:"Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Jochen Demuth wrote: | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room | I added this line to apt.conf, as suggested in | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=166758 | | APT::Cache-Limit=16777216; | | But with the same result. | | Any ideas? APT::Cache-L

Autocomplete

2004-07-09 Thread Paul Tsai
Is any familiar with the console feature that narrows the tab completion. For instance if you type tar and hit tab, it will only return the valid files with appropriate extensions, not every file in the directory. I believe it was a feature in Knoppix but I am not sure. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: printer icon

2004-07-09 Thread Bill & Shirley Borel
Have lost printer icon on the toolbar   William Borel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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