Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-13, Paul Johnson penned: > > So, in essence, TMDA's unfortunate creep in popularity is extremely > harmful because it threatens to very quickly double or triple the > damage spam causes. Too bad I haven't found a filter program that comes anywhere close to approaching the simplicity of

Install Difficulties

2004-07-12 Thread Luke Kearney
Hi, I have been trying to install bf24 on my computer which is currently multibooted with Win2K and FBSD. It currently has a copy of Sarge running 2.2.20 on it and I would like to scrap and reload. I think I did something fairly funky on the original install and apt-get is very unreliable. I cannot

Re: Color Distortion in KDE

2004-07-12 Thread Peter Bonucci
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse, I've had the same problem, since the X update about a month ago. It worked fine before that. I also have the 855 GM video controller. Thanks for the "menu effects" comment. I hadn't realized I could shut it off that way -- I don't like tr

Syslog filtering

2004-07-12 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I've a couple of servers without monitors attached. My present way of monitoring system logs on them is ssh. I want to implement Syslogs remote logging facility onto those machines so that I can monitor all t

Re: new to debian

2004-07-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:14:01PM -0700, Michael B. Levy wrote: > Greetings. > > I started using GNU/Linux two and a half years ago, > and have been a (mostly) happy Mandrake user. I had > always wanted to try Debian for the ease of apt-get, > and now that I have broadband, I wanted to switch.

Re: How to configure Gnome app color

2004-07-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:38:02PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: >A silly question, How to configure the bg/fg color for Gnome/gtk >applications? I think I could previously, but I can't find where to do >it now. Isn't this part of the theme you are using? I suspect you'd have to start modifying the theme

Re: new to debian

2004-07-12 Thread ricktaylor
> From: Michael B. Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1) I was going to copy my old /etc/fstab to the new > installation, but I don't think that will work since > to the best of my knowledge Debian doesn't use > supermount or magicdev. Is this correct? I've never > compiled a kernel before, and the

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:57:16PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: >Hi, > >Quick question how to change hostname under debian? > >I changed my /etc/hosts >from >127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost >to >127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > >but why my hostname i

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-12 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:48:32PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: >On Monday 12 July 2004 2:33 am, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Will you put those packages somewhere where others can reach them as >> well? > >Hrm, I need more webspace, my ISP only gives me about 10M > >If you roll your own, read the new deve

Re: new to debian

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
Michael B. Levy wrote: 3) How do I figure out which /dev item corresponds to which drive? I have a hdc and hdd. Is hdc the master and hdd the slave? On an IDE system with two IDE ports: hda = master on IDE 0 hdb = slave on IDE 0 hdc = master on IDE 1 hdd = slave on IDE 1 You must have one of

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Steven Satelle: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:58:40 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > [...] this is how it's supposed to work. host(1) is an > > interface to the resolver library, which does not use /etc/hosts by design. > > > > The problem is that it seems that a few other things seem

Re: what package to install a *working* X?

2004-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
Silvan wrote: Once upon a time, on Woody, all I had to do was apt-get install konqueror, and that pulled in X, kdelibs, etc. I've installed Sid a few different times lately (last few months), and I've always had problems getting X. apt-get install kde pulls in xfree86-common, I think, but ther

Re: what package to install a *working* X?

2004-07-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040713 06:49]: > Shouldn't there be one package, or one metapackage that installs a complete, > working X server with all the support apps, all the screen fonts, etc. > requires to make the thing useful? Yes, there is. > If so, WTF is it? x-window-system-core

Re: what package to install a *working* X?

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
Silvan wrote: Once upon a time, on Woody, all I had to do was apt-get install konqueror, and that pulled in X, kdelibs, etc. I've installed Sid a few different times lately (last few months), and I've always had problems getting X. apt-get install kde pulls in xfree86-common, I think, but ther

new to debian

2004-07-12 Thread Michael B. Levy
Greetings. I started using GNU/Linux two and a half years ago, and have been a (mostly) happy Mandrake user. I had always wanted to try Debian for the ease of apt-get, and now that I have broadband, I wanted to switch. I successfully installed Sarge on my machine over the weekend, and there are

RE: what package to install a *working* X?

2004-07-12 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
apt-get install x-window-system good section on x here. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016 -- Ross -Original Message- From: Silvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what package to install a *working* X? Once upon a

what package to install a *working* X?

2004-07-12 Thread Silvan
Once upon a time, on Woody, all I had to do was apt-get install konqueror, and that pulled in X, kdelibs, etc. I've installed Sid a few different times lately (last few months), and I've always had problems getting X. apt-get install kde pulls in xfree86-common, I think, but there's no X, no x

Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:27, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > > DO NOT US

Re: Hi

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Re: Re: Xserver aborts when idle

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:56:11PM -0400, disciple wrote: > Booted laptop. At the prompt I did: $ xset s off ... Got error: > xset: unable to open display " " > > I then started X and opened a terminal window. I did $ xset s off and > did not get an error, it just put back at the prompt. X

Where are CUPS Brother drivers?

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
I installed the CUPS drivers for a Brother network printer on a Debian machine the other week, and it worked *perfectly* using the driver for the HL-1670N, even though the printer is an HL-1870N. Now I am trying to install the same CUPS drivers on another Debian machine on the same LAN, and CUPS w

Re: Re: Xserver aborts when idle

2004-07-12 Thread disciple
Booted laptop. At the prompt I did: $ xset s off ... Got error: xset: unable to open display " " I then started X and opened a terminal window. I did $ xset s off and did not get an error, it just put back at the prompt. X still aborted. I rebooted my laptop and tried again still abort

Re: recommendations for a content filter on debian...

2004-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
Ross Tsolakidis wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to setup a content filter on Debian. I need to be able to apply different rules to different IP addresses, if that makes sense. Eg: blocking URL sex.com for 1 IP but not the other, etc... I would like it to be more than just a URL filter though. Has anyon

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash - success!

2004-07-12 Thread John Carline
Ah! strace, what a lovely tool. Thanks Brian. It turns out that all my /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ms/ fonts were only root readable. Don't ask me how that happened since the same mozilla configuration worked until the last sid upgrade, and I haven't changed fonts in months. Oh well! It's wo

ot: WELCOME BACK ALT + TAB

2004-07-12 Thread deb_milist
Two days ago after apt-updating and upgrading I'd got a pretty long packages list to be upgrade. X is included but unfortunetely, my local mirror had not finished on downloading it yet. Today, after everything's complete and apt-upgrading and restarting gdm ...TADA Alt + Tab works agai

Re: recommendations for a content filter on debian...

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
"Ross Tsolakidis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to setup a content filter on Debian. > I need to be able to apply different rules to different IP addresses, if > that makes sense. > Eg: blocking URL sex.com for 1 IP but not the other, etc... > I would like it to be more than just a UR

Re: hp tape drive not recognized

2004-07-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Tom Brown wrote: > dmesg: > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 You've not built support for the adapter into the kernel, you've not explicitly loaded the module for the adapter at bo

dselect alternatives

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: >> I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, >> and fiddling with package selections using dselect, >> and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > > DO NOT USE dselect!

recommendations for a content filter on debian...

2004-07-12 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, I'm looking to setup a content filter on Debian. I need to be able to apply different rules to different IP addresses, if that makes sense. Eg: blocking URL sex.com for 1 IP but not the other, etc... I would like it to be more than just a URL filter though. Has anyone had much experience

Re: Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
Gregory Pierce wrote: I am having a terrible problem getting any sound out of my speakers other than a very loud squeal when I try to play any music including streams. The sound card, a Voyetra something or other is recognized during boot up and I have a volume contral icon which I can adjust but

Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: DO NOT USE dselect! apt-get update && apt-get -u upgrade (or

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have been using Debian with KDE since December and really love it. I haven't found it to be too challenging, and most of my questions and issues were easily answered with research into lists like this one and google searching. Don't forget Debian feeds

Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 23:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> The only response I send to challenges is a response to postmaster to > >> stop using TMDA. I'm wondering if there's any good resources on the web > >> that summarize the harms of TMDA, and if so, w

sawfish popup-apps-menu problem

2004-07-12 Thread 王晓林
Hi, I am using Debian sarge, and got a problem with sawfish after a system upgrading. I bound the 'popup-apps-menu' function with the 'menu' key. It worked nicely. The complete apps menu can pops up including the Debian menu in it when I pressed the menu key. But things changed after a system u

Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Johnson wrote: Ask Karsten M. Self. I have no idea where his stuff is. He has written or researched on a myriad of things. TMDA included. Is Karsten still posting here? Here or d-i. Can't spell his name tho:-) He gave a broken link to his website in the last day or so. -- Cheers Jo

Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only response I send to challenges is a response to postmaster to >> stop using TMDA. I'm wondering if there's any good resources on the web >> that summarize the harms of TMDA, and if so, where they are located. > > Ask Karsten M. Self. I have no i

help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread William F. Dudley Jr.
I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, and fiddling with package selections using dselect, and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 396 downgraded, 605 to remove and 0 not upgraded I'm using "unstable", and mostly, it's been stable.

hp tape drive not recognized

2004-07-12 Thread Tom Brown
Hi, I am migrating our company servers from RH to Debian and one of the last hurdles is the tape drive. We have an HP SureStore Dat40x6 tape drive that is not being recognized under Debian. We are running Debian 3.0r2 and kernel 2.4.26. I have compiled in scsi support and scsi tape support. ca

Re: TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>> - The premise that responses to challenges can be reliably predicted > >>> is false. Legitimate senders will refuse to answer challenges. > >

Re: Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss

2004-07-12 Thread Gregory Pierce
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:34, Kent West wrote: > Gregory Pierce wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I am having a terrible problem getting any sound out of my speakers > >other than a very loud squeal when I try to play any music including > >streams. The sound card, a Voyetra something or other is recognize

TMDA considered harmful

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> - The premise that responses to challenges can be reliably predicted >>> is false. Legitimate senders will refuse to answer challenges. >>> Spammers can and do respond to challenges. >> >> not eno

Re: Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
Gregory Pierce wrote: Hello, I am having a terrible problem getting any sound out of my speakers other than a very loud squeal when I try to play any music including streams. The sound card, a Voyetra something or other is recognized during boot up and I have a volume contral icon which I can adjus

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:53:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been using Debian with KDE since December and really love it. I > haven't found it to be too challenging, and most of my questions and issues > were easily answered with research into lists like this one

Apache2 ServerSignature Off failing

2004-07-12 Thread Caveman
Hi all, I am using the apache2 package in sid. I am trying to turn ServerSignature off by adding ServerSignature Off to my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. I also tried my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf but it does not work. I still get the serversignature for dir listings etc. I did find that the ServerTok

Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss

2004-07-12 Thread Gregory Pierce
Hello, I am having a terrible problem getting any sound out of my speakers other than a very loud squeal when I try to play any music including streams. The sound card, a Voyetra something or other is recognized during boot up and I have a volume contral icon which I can adjust but I have no human

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread Brian Nelson
John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many > websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the > web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users, > it does not crash wh

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi John, On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: > >>Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many > >>websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the > >>web. The strange pa

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:57:16PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question how to change hostname under debian? > > I changed my /etc/hosts > from > 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost > to > 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > > but why my

Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:18:35AM +0300, Janjs Jangori wrote: > > > Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by > following the > 'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'. I would go with the new beta installer and install either testing (the default with the regular

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Robert William Hutton
* Tong* wrote: Is there any way to search executable name for it package? For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... esgaroth:~# apt-get install apt-file esgaroth:~# apt-file update [output omitted] esgaro

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:58:40 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > BTW I got the following reply after I tried reporting a bug on netbase > on this: > > [...] this is how it's supposed to work. host(1) is an > interface to the resolver library, which does not use /etc/hosts by design. > > The problem

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Stolp
* John Carline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-12 18:34]: > > > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > >On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: > > > > > > > >>Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many > >>websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the >

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread Brian Nelson
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> - The premise that responses to challenges can be reliably predicted >> is false. Legitimate senders will refuse to answer challenges. >> Spammers can and do respond to challenges. > > not enough data available. It doesn't need to be availab

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

2004-07-12 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:10:06 +0200, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > Wow, how could you do that? Can you share your code with us? I use > > colored xterms to distinguish those -- easier to do. :-) > > In my root .bashrc I have this: > > export PS1='\e[31;1m\h:\w\$\e[0m ' Also look into the tput p

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Steven Satelle
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:57:16 -0400, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question how to change hostname under debian? > > I changed my /etc/hosts > from > 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost to > 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > > but why my hostname is

Re: help

2004-07-12 Thread John Summerfield
Darlene Hunsinger wrote: I, of course, am a newbie. I can't get my printer or my digital camera installed. My nephew installed debian then went to boot camp for 15 weeks. I have a root password, but I'm not sure what to do with it. My daughter just started college and I really need the printer.

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
* Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Quick question how to change hostname under debian? > > I changed my /etc/hosts > from > 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost > to > 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > > but why my hostname is still repor

Re: fullscreen movie playback blurry: nvidia or TFT?

2004-07-12 Thread AirrezzZ
found an other solution:   turn off hardware acceleration in het propeties window of your vga card (tab called something like "problem solving")   video playback is fine after that.

Re: fullscreen movie playback blurry: nvidia or TFT?

2004-07-12 Thread RezzZ
found a other solution:   turn off hardware acceleration in het propeties window of your vga card (tab called something like "problem solving")

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:08:02PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > * Tong* (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Is there any way to search executable name for it package? > > > > For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine > > paper size. but apt-cache search c

Re: Sid-Mozilla-user-crash

2004-07-12 Thread John Carline
Brad Sawatzky wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, John Carline wrote: Since upgrading my Sid box (i386) last week, Mozilla 1.7 crashes on many websites and when attempting to open email that calls up data from the web. The strange part about it is that it only happens to regular users, it does not c

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:57:16PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > Quick question how to change hostname under debian? > > I changed my /etc/hosts > from > 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost > to > 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > I think you

help

2004-07-12 Thread Darlene Hunsinger
I, of course, am a newbie. I can't get my printer or my digital camera installed. My nephew installed debian then went to boot camp for 15 weeks. I have a root password, but I'm not sure what to do with it. My daughter just started college and I really need the printer. I just got the camera and

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:30:39PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think Oliver's answer might be the only answer. > You can search for a file name and find the package that contains it on the debian web site. > -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-12, Steve Lamb penned: > >> As they're you're client, I hope you're making some effort to educate >> them and/or provide them with that option. > > We are, yes. Trust me, it is something that I remind my bosses of > on a weekly basis. It's really frustrating when you know somet

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:15:17PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:58:47 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:52, David Fokkema wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:49:35PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > I'm puzzled. I thought I might learn something by

Re: modprobe.conf missing

2004-07-12 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Matthijs wrote: Hello, Last morning, I accidently deleted /etc/rc* (great, find-command combined with rm -f... ) and decided to start a new installation. I do have all the directories /etc, /usr, /var copied to a safe place but they don't help me now. Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via

Tasksel won't recognise second CD

2004-07-12 Thread Rich
Hi, If the following is familiar to you, I apologise for boring you but I'm reposting in plain text- thanks, Petter. I'm trying to install Sarge on an i-x86 box and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears

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

2004-07-12 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-10, * Tong* penned: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:55:08 -0400, Silvan wrote: > >> anyway. One thing I've done to help me keep track of where I am is >> to use colorized prompts. Red is root, cyan is local user, purple is >> local user with developer environment variables, green is remote, >

How to configure Gnome app color

2004-07-12 Thread * Tong*
A silly question, How to configure the bg/fg color for Gnome/gtk applications? I think I could previously, but I can't find where to do it now. Please help. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2004-07-12 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-10, Silvan penned: > > One thing I've done to help me keep track of where > I am is to use colorized prompts. Red is root, cyan is local user, > purple is local user with developer environment variables, green is > remote, etc. It helps when you have as many different terminal > sessio

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-12 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 12 July 2004 2:33 am, Magnus Therning wrote: > Will you put those packages somewhere where others can reach them as > well? Hrm, I need more webspace, my ISP only gives me about 10M If you roll your own, read the new developer how-to to learn how to make the debs version -99 that way ap

Re: DHCP Server choices

2004-07-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Not really.. But ISC does evreythng you could possibly want. Why do you want an alternative? Because I don't care for ISC. Daniel !DSPAM:40f315256061401763848! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tasksel won't recognise second CD

2004-07-12 Thread Rich
Hi, If the following is familiar to you, I apologise for boring you but I'm reposting in plain text- thanks, Petter. I'm trying to install Sarge on an i-x86 box and everything is fine until I'm asked for the second CD. The CD isn't recognised, and the prompt to insert second disk simply reappears

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > Implementing a C/R system without first running the mail through some > spam detection system is horribly irresponsible. Tell that to some of the C/R zealots running around. I'm the one who does filtering. :) > As they're you're client, I hope you're making some

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:57:16 -0400 * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick question how to change hostname under debian? Quick answer: edit /etc/hostname. No reboot necessary (but go to init level 1 and back again to make sure stuff like Apache doesn't get an identity crisis). -- Got Backup

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-12 Thread * Tong*
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:58:47 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:52, David Fokkema wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:49:35PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> > I'm puzzled. I thought I might learn something by checking on this >> > fix to Tong's problem, but running as root on

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
* Tong* wrote: Hi, Quick question how to change hostname under debian? I changed my /etc/hosts from 127.0.0.1 cxmr localhost to 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost but why my hostname is still reporting merely 'cxmr'? How to fix it? (Surely I've r

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Oliver's answer might be the only answer. Nope: # apt-get install apt-file && apt-file update $ apt-file search -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.ne

Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-12 Thread Kent West
Janjs Jangori wrote: Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by following the 'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'. However, when I login as root and type startx to get my GUI running I get the err message x connection to :0.0 broken (Explicit kill or Server Shutd

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread * Tong*
Thanks everyone for the reply. On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 22:08:02 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Is there any way to search executable name for it package? >> >> For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine >> paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name...

Changing hostname

2004-07-12 Thread * Tong*
Hi, Quick question how to change hostname under debian? I changed my /etc/hosts from 127.0.0.1 cxmrlocalhost to 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost but why my hostname is still reporting merely 'cxmr'? How to fix it? (Surely I've reboot

Re: postfix trusted network

2004-07-12 Thread Rob Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 08:29 am, Frank Kaldewey wrote: > Hi > > postfix has to relay mails from a webserver(win2k) in LAN to WAN. > > webserver 192.168.1.150 > > mailserver/postfix 192.168.1.100 > > I edit in etc/postfix/main.cf > > mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8 Neither 1

Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-12 Thread Janjs Jangori
Confession: Am a complete novice and just had my first Linux installed by following the 'Installing Debian Linux 3.0(Woody)'. However, when I login as root and type startx to get my GUI running I get the err message x connection to :0.0 broken (Explicit kill or Server Shutdown) I did realise th

Re: tmda

2004-07-12 Thread Paul Johnson
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-07-12, Steve Lamb penned: >> >> I'm not sure what Karsten had in mind here but let me give my >> first hand view on this piece. My current employment gives me >> access to TMDA in production use. In one instance a client of >>

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:53:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been using Debian with KDE since December and really love it. I > haven't found it to be too challenging, and most of my questions and issues > were easily answered with research into lists like this one

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-12, Steve Lamb penned: > > I'm not sure what Karsten had in mind here but let me give my > first hand view on this piece. My current employment gives me > access to TMDA in production use. In one instance a client of > ours gets over 9,000 messages *a day*. Virtually a

ABOUT ICQ BULGARIA

2004-07-12 Thread Деян Стоянов
hi i've quetion about ICQ -- Multi-User Installation from where i can dowload --Install the Debian JDK. --ICQ tar ball ?? thank you - http://www.elmaz.com/ - Запознанства! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: X freezes, chvt hangs.

2004-07-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 05:56, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Problems with X locking up. > > Different box from the slow drive problem posted earlier. > > I've got a CappuccinoPC Mocha mini-ITX format system. Pretty much > everything's onboard. > > Over the past several weeks I've had increasing probl

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question for you all is this, how might I help? I want to give back to You seem to have a good idea about this yourself. Also, you can help newbies on the Usenet, these lists, and your own community. I think the local work is mo

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello * Tong* (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is there any way to search executable name for it package? > > For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine > paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... You can use dpkg -L to list the contents of an ins

Re: DHCP Server choices

2004-07-12 Thread j2
> Are there any other alternatives for a DHCP server besides ISC and dnsmasq? Not really.. But ISC does evreythng you could possibly want. Why do you want an alternative? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat

2004-07-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:46:38AM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:30:53PM +, Stephen Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:10:04 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > When I

DHCP Server choices

2004-07-12 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Are there any other alternatives for a DHCP server besides ISC and dnsmasq? Daniel !DSPAM:40f2eed0273908772226390! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk tools in debian

2004-07-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:52, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:49:35PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm puzzled. I thought I might learn something by checking on this > > fix to Tong's problem, but running as root on a Sarge system, I get > > results just like Tong, and not like

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 20:24, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to search executable name for it package? > > For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine > paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... Go to http://packages.debian.org and sea

Re: Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:24:49PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > Is there any way to search executable name for it package? > > For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine > paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... I'm not completely sure I understand

Any way to search executable name?

2004-07-12 Thread * Tong*
Hi, Is there any way to search executable name for it package? For example, from efax.rc I know that it uses "paperconf" to determine paper size. but apt-cache search can't find its package name... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
David Fokkema wrote: >> - The math for C-R simply doesn't scale. > ? I'm not sure what Karsten had in mind here but let me give my first hand view on this piece. My current employment gives me access to TMDA in production use. In one instance a client of ours gets over 9,000 messages *a da

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-12 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:53:52AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My question for you all is this, how might I help? I want to give back to > this extraordinary community. I don't have the inclination to write code, > I'm not a programmer so can't really help in that way. I can edit

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