Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:40:51PM +0100, Tom wrote: Isn't PHP's greatest strength its online-ness and user comments? Why not use it that way, there's plenty of mirrors, and browsers usually have caching mechanisms. :) Yes. However, there are times when it is nice to

Re: sarge iptables

2007-01-08 Thread web8_debian
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:59:44AM +0100, Marc wrote: >> Hi there, >> my kernel (2.6.18) has hashlimit support for iptables compiled in. >> Now I try to insert a rule using hashlimit, then the following appears: >> >> iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match >> `hashlimit':/lib/iptables/libipt_hashl

Re: Re: Recording sound being played

2007-01-08 Thread Philippe Cloutier
Thank you, Sven and Andrew. Using audacity and the default input worked, as soon as I started checking that the Capture channel was enabled. If anyone wants to try the same, check the Capture channel, and often. It seems to be disabled all the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic signific

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic signific

Re: sound in kernel 2.6.19.1

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:26:18AM +0200, jobs wrote: > Hello > > I have not sound using mplayer or any player but I have the beep sound. > > I was compiled kernel 2.6.19.1 almost with the same sound config as > with the kernel-2.6.15.1, but I have not sound using the new kernel. > I get two err

sound in kernel 2.6.19.1

2007-01-08 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I have not sound using mplayer or any player but I have the beep sound. I was compiled kernel 2.6.19.1 almost with the same sound config as with the kernel-2.6.15.1, but I have not sound using the new kernel. I get two errors on boot time (using 2.6.19.1) that wasn't in the old kernel-2.

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:11:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > > > xfce? > > > > Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wra

quake in xfce

2007-01-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
I've noticed that when I play quake2 in xfce, that it briefly freezes every once in a while. This does not happen if I'm using Gnome, or Ion3. Anyone else noticed this? I'm using Etch, on a Pentium III with 450 MHz, and 384 MB ram. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic significance only. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

sound in kernel 2.6.19.1

2007-01-08 Thread jobs
Hello I have not sound using mplayer or any player but I have the beep sound. I was compiled kernel 2.6.19.1 almost with the same sound config as with the kernel-2.6.15.1, but I have not sound using the new kernel. I get two errors on boot time (using 2.6.19.1) that wasn't in the old kernel-2.

FIXED was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: ss11223 wrote: That's an oddity. Have you tried http://www.us.debian.org/ ? That works! I also *can't* get to www.debian.org from a Windoze box on this LAN. I'm checking to see if anyone at my ISP is having trouble. I wrote my ISP and the problem was fixed when I got

sound in kernel 2.6.19.1

2007-01-08 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I have not sound using mplayer or any player but I have the beep sound. I was compiled kernel 2.6.19.1 almost with the same sound config as with the kernel-2.6.15.1, but I have not sound using the new kernel. I get two errors on boot time (using 2.6.19.1) that wasn't in the old kernel-2.

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > > xfce? > > Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. > Configure PPP with pppconfig. > > Andrew Sackville-Wes

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > Also to allow the user to connect and disconnect # adduser dip Pppconfig can take care of this. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > xfce? Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wrapper around pon and poff. Configure PPP with pppconfig. Andrew Sackville-West writes: > what group is pppd? I think you can just add yourself to the dial

Re: What's wrong with abiword in etch

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All: > > Although openoffice,org is great , I still need to use abiword because I > have a lot of existed documents edited by abiword. > After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore. > (I've tried to reinstall it , but that

Re: sarge iptables

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:59:44AM +0100, Marc wrote: > Hi there, > my kernel (2.6.18) has hashlimit support for iptables compiled in. > Now I try to insert a rule using hashlimit, then the following appears: > > iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match > `hashlimit':/lib/iptables/libipt_hashlimit.so

sarge iptables

2007-01-08 Thread Marc
Hi there, my kernel (2.6.18) has hashlimit support for iptables compiled in. Now I try to insert a rule using hashlimit, then the following appears: iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load match `hashlimit':/lib/iptables/libipt_hashlimit.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Why i

Re: What's wrong with abiword in etch

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All: > > Although openoffice,org is great , I still need to use abiword because I > have a lot of existed documents edited by abiword. > After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore. > (I've tried to reinstall it , but that

Re: What's wrong with abiword in etch

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All: > > Although openoffice,org is great , I still need to use abiword because I > have a lot of existed documents edited by abiword. > After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore. > (I've tried to reinstall it , but that

What's wrong with abiword in etch

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Hu
Dear All: Although openoffice,org is great , I still need to use abiword because I have a lot of existed documents edited by abiword. After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore. (I've tried to reinstall it , but that doesn't help) Does anyone know what's going on for abiword on etch

Re: Missing jigdo file

2007-01-08 Thread Bryce
Thanks so much, I had been looking everywhere for that. - Original Message - From: "Alan Ianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:26 AM Subject: Re: Missing jigdo file I got that error too, I used http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ to get tha

Re: Updating known_hosts SSH Keys

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:11:28PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Hey, > > I was recently connecting from one host to another via ssh, and > the remote host's host key had changed. I was expecting this > change (I made it myself in fact), so naturally I just wanted to > connect anyway, despite th

Updating known_hosts SSH Keys

2007-01-08 Thread Grok Mogger
Hey, I was recently connecting from one host to another via ssh, and the remote host's host key had changed. I was expecting this change (I made it myself in fact), so naturally I just wanted to connect anyway, despite the warning that SSH gave me, and update my known_hosts file. I could n

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 09/01/07, Mark Grieveson wrote: I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user it states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions. I've checked, and regular users have read permission, with the program being labelled executable. Does it n

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:37:44PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection > for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. I saw you on xfce list... but couldn't come up with a thing to help. its amazing how much text affec

Re: dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 12:37, Mark Grieveson sent this for all our perusal: >---> Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up > connection for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. ---> >---> I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user >

dial up connection

2007-01-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for xfce? I don't wish to use kppp, or gnome-ppp. I've used wvdial, but I find it only works as root. As a regular user it states that it cannot access pppd, instructing me to check my permissions. I've checked, an

RBL lookup errors

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I've just started seeing these messages in my logs: Jan 8 17:46:42 bogota postfix/smtpd[19538]: warning: 31.162.103.70.relays.ordb.org: RBL lookup error: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=31.162.103.70.relays.ordb.org type=A: Host not found, try again Did something ha

Re: totem media player...

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:38:11AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I also tried firing up totem movie player to see if it would help. Excuse > my ignorance but is it the free alternative to real player? > > It can't seem to find the real player files on the web page. You can get > the web

totem media player...

2007-01-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear folks, I have been trying to watch a video on the following site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight If you go on there and click on a video clip you get a little firefox AV window. The black box and some boxes with arrows appear to play the clip but the clip refuses to start. Javascipt e

Encrypted file systems

2007-01-08 Thread Francis Healy
I currently use a Windows XP/Linux dual boot laptop. My company will likely begin to require encryption on laptop systems. I have built a few etch systems and noticed that it offers encryption as an option in the setup. My company uses PGP for encryption on Windows laptops. Has anyone tried

Re: getting realplayer to work in firefox...

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:57:22PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear folks, > > I downloaded a file RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real player site that I > think is a plug in for Firefox that would let me watch some movies with > sound. > > I did chmod a+x on the file. > > rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: Etch: aide gives "onexit unknown error"

2007-01-08 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 12:07 +, Matthijs van Aalten wrote: > (apologies if this turns out to be a HTML-message - I haven't found an > option to switch to plain text in windows live mail) > > Hello, > > I've recently installed Etch on my server, including package 'aide'. > The daily cron job gi

getting realplayer to work in firefox...

2007-01-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear folks, I downloaded a file RealPlayer10GOLD.bin from the real player site that I think is a plug in for Firefox that would let me watch some movies with sound. I did chmod a+x on the file. rwxr-xr-x 1 mikef mikef 5802563 2007-01-09 11:32 RealPlayer10GOLD.bin I am not exactly sure ho

Re: netfilter, iptable ...

2007-01-08 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 22:52 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I have a script which contains iptables's commands and which works fine > as firewall, but I encounter a problem with the log: > > in /var/log/kern.log I get a tone of lines of this type: > > Jan 8 18:25:25 nameofmybox kernel: Inb

RE: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread James Stevenson
> > > useful in this environment? > > Many folks like that one. I use shorewall. You can always block outgoing > > ports that you dont use. If you dont run an ftp server, block port 20 > > and 21, etc. > > > That is why I really like the "default deny" mentality. Start by > blocking all incoming a

Re: set up Etch to unicode

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:19:51PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > > OK I installed utf8-migration-tool, but how can I use it? > > No man page is here. Try to locate utf-8, but can't find any > utf8-migration-tool. > If you run `dpkg -L utf8-migration-tool |grep bin`, it will tell you what binary or

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:13:01PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > My LAN is protected by a machine running SmoothWall Express 2.0, > > acting as a firewall and router. Would an internal firewall package be > > useful in this e

RE: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread James Stevenson
> If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only > against incoming messages, and is useless against spyware which > "phones home" or zombie-ware which spews email spam. Not totally correct. A firewall is only as good as the traffic that is permitted to flow across it. If you wa

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-08 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: On 1/7/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see where the Display Data Channel (or DDC protocol, which IDs your monitor) module (ddc) is loaded, but none of the output. Maybe you are missing the I2C drivers for your motherboard or the graphics card drivers, both of which ar

RE: Apache2 is serving php files it does not own

2007-01-08 Thread Virgil E. Alderson
Ok when you mentioned >Do you use special php modules that cache the compiled scripts? I do, so I removed eaccelerator from loading and that solved the problem. Thanks, I will recompile and reinstall eaccelerator and will post on their forums to try to figure out why it behaved like that. Thank

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 06:40:51PM +0100, Tom wrote: > > Isn't PHP's greatest strength its online-ness and user comments? Why > not use it that way, there's plenty of mirrors, and browsers usually > have caching mechanisms. :) > Yes. However, there are times when it is nice to be able to have a

pam_umask.so and scp have serious problems (can't handle shared folder)

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Baumann
Hi, I have serious problem setting up a shared folder "/home/shared" for my whole family to store pictures etc. After reading http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo I managed to put the (hopefully) correct config option in /etc/pam.d/common-session amd700:/etc/pam.d# egrep -v '^#.*' /etc/pa

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 05:46:56PM +0100, Yvan wrote: > > I know about jigdo, I used it last year, but now whoever was > responsible for creating .jigdo and .template files for unstable / sid > stopped updating files: > > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sid-dvd/jigdo/ > Thes

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Angelo Bertolli writes: > 2) If you have a hash of all the files (like tripwire provides) on some >media that was NOT compromised, you can check those. You must also boot from uncompromised media. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: set up Etch to unicode

2007-01-08 Thread csanyipal
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:54:26PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:31:35PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > > I upgraded the system from Sarge to Etch. > > > > Now, I want to setup the X Window system to unicode. > > > > How can I do that? > > > > There on Etch isn't there the lo

Re: Apache2 is serving php files it does not own

2007-01-08 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday 08 January 2007 22:42, Virgil E. Alderson wrote: > I had already looked into my cache, and that is not it. as a test I > have put a rule in my directory entry so that it will only allow to > serve test.php on localhost and that stops it from showing it on a > external computer. So its not

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 14:13, Russell L. Harris wrote: So, before I preach about the dangers of spyware and zombies to my buddies using Window$, how can I be certain that my own Debian machine has not been compromised and has not become a zombie? Is there a sim

Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-08 Thread Ken Heard
Whenever I print text, html or pdf files from either Konqueror or Firefox, the text starts so close to the top of each page that the first line either does not get printed, or only part of it is printed. Is there a way to adjust the printing to have the text start say 8-10 mm further down the

Re: setting a spca5xx webcam under sarge?

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:15:32PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > > > > I tried camE, gqcam and camstream. The dark background thing is > widespread. No single software did ok with the cam. So weird, the camera > lights on and off when some program accesses it. But no image. > Well, the issue is op

Root permissions in gnome with etch

2007-01-08 Thread Virgil E. Alderson
Whenever I use synaptic or any other package that requires root access in Gnome, instead of asking me for the password I get a windows that says "Granted permissions without asking for password" the '' program was started with the privileges of the root user without the need to ask for a password,

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Russell L. Harris wrote: Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only against incoming messages, and is useless against

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/8/07, Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:46 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > Here's what seems to be available for video: > Integrated Intel 945GM > Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 > ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 64MB > ATI Mobility Fire GL V5200 256MB > ATI Mob

Re: apt-get update failing at 99%

2007-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Tom Allison wrote: > I am running into this repeatedly on one machine in particular. > > I don't have a memory problem (apt::cache or hardware). > I've been able to run apt-get update on other boxes in the same network > and it works OK. But this keeps stopping at 99% and appears to hang. There

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/5/07, Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there is a thinkpad ML .. your question would get there more answers.. At thinkwiki.org? I don't see a Debian ThinkPad list... On Don, 04 Jän 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: > Video acceleration: > All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets.

Re: Apache2 is serving php files it does not own

2007-01-08 Thread Virgil E. Alderson
I had already looked into my cache, and that is not it. as a test I have put a rule in my directory entry so that it will only allow to serve test.php on localhost and that stops it from showing it on a external computer. So its not the cache, and I do not run a proxy. Virgil Stefan Fritsch w

netfilter, iptable ...

2007-01-08 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I have a script which contains iptables's commands and which works fine as firewall, but I encounter a problem with the log: in /var/log/kern.log I get a tone of lines of this type: Jan 8 18:25:25 nameofmybox kernel: Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:e:4c:8:3:1:00:07:cb:31:9c:71:08:00 SRC= A.B

Re: Apache2 is serving php files it does not own

2007-01-08 Thread Stefan Fritsch
debian-apache is not a support list, CCing to debian-user On Monday 08 January 2007 19:50, Virgil E. Alderson wrote: > After an update apache2 all of a sudden is serving php files it > does not own or have rights to read or write to. Up to this point i > have had my files owned by user: root and g

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread sdpatt2
on Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:18:27PM +0200 Andrei Popescu mumbled: > A more primitive hack is to configure your MUA to save outgoing mail to > the same folder. This way you can still follow the thread correctly, > but you have to check in the archives if your message reached the list. > Nah. If g

Re: setting a spca5xx webcam under sarge?

2007-01-08 Thread Bruno Buys
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:35:12PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > >>Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> >>>On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 01:53:23AM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: >>> >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 10:4

Re: set up Etch to unicode

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:31:35PM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > Hello! > > I upgraded the system from Sarge to Etch. > > Now, I want to setup the X Window system to unicode. > > How can I do that? > > There on Etch isn't there the localeconf package.

Re: installation

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:24:33AM -0800, Jerry Hahs wrote: > somewhere in the last week + saw that I was to notify if the OS had been > installed - YES it is operating still have some hdwe tuning - was not > easy; probably 10 times on 2 different ma

Re: truncated output

2007-01-08 Thread celejar
On 1/8/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. ccostin, 08.01.2007 16:31: > dpkg --list linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen* command show > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-requ

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:13, Russell L. Harris wrote: > So, before I preach about the dangers of spyware and zombies to my > buddies using Window$, how can I be certain that my own Debian machine > has not been compromised and has not become a zombie? Is there a > simple test which I can run

Shared memory error

2007-01-08 Thread ccostin
What's wrong with SHM which has 0x key, shmid 20217856 ? Why can't be removed ? #ipcs -m -- Shared Memory Segments keyshmid owner perms bytes nattch status 0x 20217856 user1 66616 3 dest 0x 32769

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:13:01PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ > machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into > spam-spewing zombies. > > If I understand th

set up Etch to unicode

2007-01-08 Thread csanyipal
Hello! I upgraded the system from Sarge to Etch. Now, I want to setup the X Window system to unicode. How can I do that? There on Etch isn't there the localeconf package. Any advices will be appreciated! -- Regards, Paul Csányi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Giuseppe Marinelli
Russell L. Harris wrote: Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only against incoming messages, and is useless against

installation

2007-01-08 Thread Jerry Hahs
somewhere in the last week + saw that I was to notify if the OS had been installed - YES it is operating still have some hdwe tuning - was not easy; probably 10 times on 2 different machines - thanks if this is not the place to notify pls fwd or send me the address -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Etch stable - when?

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:36:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (08/01/07 12:21), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > > Does anybody here know something more new than the informations from the > > debian site? > > > > > > July 24th, 2006 > > The Debian

set up Etch to unicode

2007-01-08 Thread csanyipal
Hello! I upgraded the system from Sarge to Etch. Now, I want to setup the X Window system to unicode. How can I do that? There on Etch isn't there the localeconf package. Any advices will be appreciated! -- Regards, Paul Csányi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
ss11223 wrote: That's an oddity. Have you tried http://www.us.debian.org/ ? That works! I also *can't* get to www.debian.org from a Windoze box on this LAN. I'm checking to see if anyone at my ISP is having trouble. Thanks, Paul Could this be a DNS problem? Did you try to a

How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only against incoming messages, and is useless against spyware which "phones home

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread ss11223
> > That's an oddity. Have you tried http://www.us.debian.org/ ? > > > That works! I also *can't* get to www.debian.org from a Windoze box on > this LAN. > > I'm checking to see if anyone at my ISP is having trouble. > > Thanks, > > Paul > > Could this be a DNS problem? Did you try to access ww

RE: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Goodman
Douglas Tutty wrote on Monday, January 08, 2007 8:02 AM -0600: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:52:57PM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: > > Douglas Tutty wrote on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:20 PM -0600: > > > > > Most electronics are designed for an ambient (to them, not the > > > case) temperature of 25 C

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Tom
Tom wrote: If that's not enough, they offer documentation for offline use at [1]. Put short, do your homework. :p Bleh. :) [1] http://www.php.net/download-docs.php Cheers, Tom -- np: Sophia - Herbstwerk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Tom
Hey ho Lorenzo, I can't seem to find such a package in Debian... should I > add some particular repository? Isn't PHP's greatest strength its online-ness and user comments? Why not use it that way, there's plenty of mirrors, and browsers usually have caching mechanisms. :) If that's not enoug

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Mutsuura Associates, Inc.
I loaded up XAMPP which comes w/ PHP4 and PHP5 (default). Works out of the box. Attila Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:27:34 +0100 From: Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Php 5 documentation Resent-Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:27:47 -0600 (CST) Resent-Fro

Re: Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Lorenzo. Lorenzo Bettini, 08.01.2007 18:24: > [ PHP5 documentation ] > > I can't seem to find such a package in Debian... should I add some > particular repository? > $ apt-cache search php5 doc > php5-common - Common files for packages built from the php5 source > php5-json - JSON seriali

Php 5 documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I can't seem to find such a package in Debian... should I add some particular repository? thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it BLOGS: http:

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Alan Ianson wrote: On Mon January 8 2007 08:57, Paul Scott wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to mirrors to install packages but not to the web site.

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-08 Thread Matt Miller
> something that is a pretty small form factor as space is a definite > consideration I've been using the Shuttle XPC. This is not a super-small machine, but it is a full-fledged PC in a small form factor. I've used the SN21G5. Put in an AMD 4600+ CPU, a couple GB of RAM, configure a couple SATA

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:42:59 -0500 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: > > > > Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. > > But I receive other po

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:57, Paul Scott wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >> Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to > >> mirrors to install packages but not to the web site. > > > > works fine in S

Re: Can I change motherboard without reinstal ling sarge

2007-01-08 Thread Bob McGowan
Since the original problem appears to be a hang shortly after attempting to read the BIOS, I kinda doubt that this trick will work. The poster stated that attempting to boot Sarge, "it" says BIOS check fails. I wonder if this is the BIOS itself, and Debian isn't even in the picture yet? I'd

Re: Annoying beep!

2007-01-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.01.07 19:53, David Baron wrote: > I get it if there is a console login, say on 0,vt1 and the firewall is > stopping packets. Each one of these messages will beep. > > Logging out the session silences the noise. it may be either your confole program configured to beep whenever a message is

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:42, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: > > > > Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. > > But I receive other posts and even answers to my ow

firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to mirrors to install packages but not to the web site. works fine in Spokane WA Can anyone think of what protocol my firewall

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

2007-01-08 Thread Yvan
Nedavno Albert Dengg pise: | well, as an alternative to the option of the previous poster (run a | netinstall), you could also use jigdo to download the images for the | testing distribution, which should not be much difference to | unstable... | | though, it is probably faster to run a netinstal

Re: Etch stable - when?

2007-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:36:21 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] as long as the machine > isn't exposed to the internet ... [snip] AFAIK the security support is already running for etch. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: > > Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. > But I receive other posts and even answers to my own posts. > > A: gmail will discard your own posts because they co

Re: truncated output

2007-01-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. ccostin, 08.01.2007 16:31: > dpkg --list linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen* command show > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||

Re: Etch stable - when?

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 08 January 2007 06:21, Angela Gavazzi wrote: > Does anybody here know something more new than the informations from the > debian site? > I usually keep track of debian-devel-announce mailing list for this kind of things. Subscription/unsubscription info for debian-devel-announce mailing

Re: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to > mirrors to install packages but not to the web site. works fine in Spokane WA A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

2007-01-08 Thread Lars Roland
On 1/7/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 06:35:34AM +0100, rafiks wrote: > > But I read somewhere that I can't make the partition smaller with XFS..Is > this still true? > That is correct. You cannot make XFS shrink, only grow. However, this does not prev

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

2007-01-08 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: mke2fs(8) (which is what you get when you run 'man mkfs.ext3'), states: -m reserved-blocks-percentage Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned

truncated output

2007-01-08 Thread ccostin
Hello dpkg --list linux-image-2.6.16-2-xen* command show Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version

Re: Missing jigdo file

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 7 2007 22:16, Bryce wrote: > Does anyone known anything about the file > gtkdiskfree_1.9.3-4sarge1_amd64.deb : > > Jigdo asks for this file but can't find it--out of over 7,000 files this > is the only one missing for a DVD ISO (for AMD-64). The archives at > snapshot.debian.net

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