Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff
Jeff wrote: Jeff wrote: Shams Fantar wrote: Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97 now running Lenny but had the same problem in Etch. Wonder if i have left something o

Re: lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's time to join the procmail email list. You're being attacked by spam. If you had spamassassin properly installed you could save all of the invalid email to a probably-spam folder and use it to train your spam filter sa-learn --spam would do that but before I did that, I'd run sa-learn --ha

Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's true, but that wasn't what he asked. Martin wanted to know if it > is safe to use aptitude after having used dselect up to now, and the > answer is "no"--unless certain steps are taken in aptitude. Christ Mumia, would you stop spreading this clueles

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Miles Bader
"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. There are certainly a fair number of packages that don't correctly support "make uninstall", but I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's "rarely supported" or "most often it doesn't wo

Re: xserver-xorg question

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sat 06 Oct 2007 10:02:59 AM EDT debian:~# dpkg-reconfigure -f readline xserver-xorg Configuring xserver-xorg You should choose this option if you would like to attempt to autodetect the recommended X server and driver module for your video card. If the

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work. If you want > something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to > look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url: > http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) > Rarely supported meaning by developers? I gue

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Here is the question: lets say you

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:11:30PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as > > > root, without reinstalling the OS? >

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:59:10PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as > > > root, without reinstalling the OS? >

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as > > root, without reinstalling the OS? > > Here is the question: lets say you fix the initial problem and CA

(solved)Re: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge

2007-10-06 Thread Serena Cantor
I have found out the cause on my own. USB mouse did not work because I have removed hotplug and discover packages. Now I install them again, and USB mouse get configed. Thanks to all those reply! --- KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > I have used "modprobe usbmouse" comman

Re: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:57:37PM -0400, KS wrote: > Serena Cantor wrote: > > I have used "modprobe usbmouse" command, it seems OK > > > > Then how should I change XF86Config-4? Namely Mouse Device and Mouse > > Protocol? For PS mouse, they > > are /dev/psaux and PS/2 protocol. > > > > After th

Re: Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:15:27PM -0300, Marcello Barreto de Medeiros wrote: > Hello Frank, hello Amit, > i think the better way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, and > modify, if necessary, because you have to use the newest > packages from updated mirrors. The OP said he ha

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 20:46, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as > > root, without reinstalling the OS? > > Here is the question: lets say you fix the initial problem and CA

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:30:42AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, > without reinstalling the OS? > Here is the question: lets say you fix the initial problem and CAN log in as root. What next? You have a few hundred files

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 06 October 2007 21:18:29 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for > testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running > the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the > respectiv

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Felix, I hope this message also helps with your problem. ] > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 16:22:06 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > > Florian Kulzer writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 21:02:41 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > > > > > > Did you try to remove

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-06 Thread Carl Johnson
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I haven't seen any place where aptitude shows any of that > > information. It just shows me a warning such as: > > > > WARNING: This version of acpid

The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I recently compiled a bunch of software on my Debian Etch system for testing. After testing I wanted to remove them and I have been running the 'make uninstall' command in the source code directory of the respective application. I was curious as to how effective this command was. It s

Re: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge

2007-10-06 Thread KS
Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used "modprobe usbmouse" command, it seems OK > > Then how should I change XF86Config-4? Namely Mouse Device and Mouse > Protocol? For PS mouse, they > are /dev/psaux and PS/2 protocol. > > After that, Am i all set? > My xorg.conf has the following (USB mouse conn

urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge

2007-10-06 Thread Serena Cantor
I have used "modprobe usbmouse" command, it seems OK Then how should I change XF86Config-4? Namely Mouse Device and Mouse Protocol? For PS mouse, they are /dev/psaux and PS/2 protocol. After that, Am i all set?

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:46:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of > > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i > > get: > > > >

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > Yes, I have set the iceweasel as the default x-www-browser, it works > fine when I click hyper links within the other applications except > icedove. So I'm wondering if there is any option in icedove to be set > explicitly to point to iceweasel which opens the hyper links when user > click i

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread David Fox
On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of > course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: > > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted Something is odd indeed. I attem

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, tom arnall wrote: lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom

can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted could the two things be connected? thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff
Davide Mancusi wrote: Jeff ha scritto: If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards.

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:58, Thilo Six wrote: > David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52 > > <<-snip->> > > > Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root > > partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up. > > You mean something like checki

Re: Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Marcello Barreto de Medeiros
Hello Frank, hello Amit, i think the better way is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list, and modify, if necessary, because you have to use the newest packages from updated mirrors. On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:28:27 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:07:14

lots of invalid email trying to come in

2007-10-06 Thread Rick Pasotto
Suddenly I'm getting lots of email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where 'someuser' can be most anything. They're coming from different ips, some of which have no host name. ('mywebsite' is not the real name.) What's going on? How can I stop it? Here's some lines from my logfile: 2007-10-06 20:10:32 H=smtp

Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/06/2007 11:24 AM, Márcio H. Parreiras wrote: On 10/6/07, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after having used dselect up to now? Thnaks, Martin Sure, aptitude is a better tool than dselect. That's true, b

Re: SNMP Issues on Debian Etch

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:22:35AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: > When I try to run the snmpwalk command, I'm told it doesn't exist. > Has this been taken out of Debian Etch or is it in some other > package? $ apt-file search bin/snmpwalk snmp: usr/bin/snmpwalk Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk

Re: Nagios For Debian

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Firstly please do not hijack other threads. If you want to start a new thread, do it as a new email. On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:17:02AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: > Is anyone else using Nagios on Debian Etch? I am. > I've got it set up for monitoring Linux and Windows servers, but > the ch

Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Davide Mancusi
Jeff ha scritto: If you are not running any sound daemons then it might be necessary to load the OSS legacy support modules so that the browser can use those devices directly. (It seems that alsaconf does not automatically load the OSS modules anymore with some soundcards. Chris Lale has collecte

Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Martin! Martin Waller wrote: > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after > having used dselect up to now? Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases. For a comparison, see Joey Hess' article about aptitude vs. dselect[0]. HTH, Tobias [0] http://

Re: xserver-xorg question

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Jude! Jude DaShiell wrote: > It's actually dexconf having the problem writing a file claiming the > default xserver isn't configured. I may have hardware debian doesn't > know how to detect on its own and didn't specify it earlier. dexconf uses the debconf database to build an xorg.conf file.

Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:43:05 +1300, Jeff wrote: Jeff wrote: Shams Fantar wrote: Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97

Re: Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hi Amit! Hi Frank! Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > "frank asabere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, >> postgresql, php4 libapache-mod-perl. >> since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds . [...] > > just do the following: > sudo apt-get install

Re: console-setup package

2007-10-06 Thread Thilo Six
Michael Biebl wrote the following on 05.10.2007 18:17 <<-snip->> > I noticed that this happpened since the upgrade of xserver-xorg. > Can you confirm that? I can´t confirm it is because of xserver-xorg since there were to much updates at that time here. But i can confirm this bug and allready su

Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:43:05 +1300, Jeff wrote: > Jeff wrote: >> Shams Fantar wrote: >>> Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97 now running Lenny but had t

Re: Conducting an install via ssh

2007-10-06 Thread hugh
Douglas A. Tutty writes: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:58:13PM +0100, Hugh wrote: I wanted to use debian-installer's network-console. Is there no way to use a USB-Serial converter as the console? I hadn't thought to try that, I assumed extra modules would be needed and it'd be tricky to c

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 11:25, Thilo Six wrote: > tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13 > > <<-snip->> > > > Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making > > an entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do. > > sudo will do that for you without extr

Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread frank asabere
Good day sir Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4 libapache-mod-perl. since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds . Please help me out

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-06 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:40:44 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [ Felix, I hope this message also helps with your problem. ] Thank you. The posting gave a full explanation of my observations and a strategy for dealing with the (probably non-existent) problem. Felix -- Felix Karpfen Public Key 7

Re: No sound in browser (NOT solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff
Jeff wrote: Shams Fantar wrote: Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97 now running Lenny but had the same problem in Etch. Wonder if i have left something out? Any sugg

Re: Installation Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:07:14 + "frank asabere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day sir > Could you plesae help to install packages like apache, postgresql, php4 > libapache-mod-perl. > since l have all the debain ver 3.1 14 cds . > Please help me out > just do the following: sudo apt-get i

Re: No sound in browser (solved)

2007-10-06 Thread Jeff
Shams Fantar wrote: Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97 now running Lenny but had the same problem in Etch. Wonder if i have left something out? Any suggestions welco

Re: mdadm segfaults - failed upgrade to Lenny - drops to busybox/initramfs

2007-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.06.2012 +0100]: > Booting now drops you to initramfs - attempts to use mdadm fail > with a segfault. Have used a Knoppix which establishes that there > is still a boot partition. Now downloading grml to see whether > that will help. http:/

mdadm segfaults - failed upgrade to Lenny - drops to busybox/initramfs

2007-10-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject should say it all. Updated a box to Lenny from Etch - boot on one partition, root and everything else on an mdadm managed raid5. Booting now drops you to initramfs - attempts to use mdadm fail with a segfault. Have used a Knoppix which establishes that there is still a boot partition. N

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Thilo Six
David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52 <<-snip->> > Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root > partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up. You mean something like checking each and every directory´s and file´s permission compare them

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread David Fox
On 10/6/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, > without reinstalling the OS? aptitude -reinstall base-files, perhaps Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root partition and do a chroot into

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Thilo Six
tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:30 > Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, > without reinstalling the OS? > > Thanks, > > tom Well see: in /etc there is mosly everything 644 *BUT* there are specific files that are 440 or 755. And there may

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root, without reinstalling the OS? Thanks, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Thilo Six
tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13 <<-snip->> > Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making an > entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do. sudo will do that for you without extra modifications from you. *But* sudo will only make syslog entri

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-06 Thread David Fox
On 10/6/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What can be put into .mplayer.conf to disable video entirely so just the > sound track plays? $ mplayer -vo null something.mpg will play the audio but suppress the video. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 06 October 2007 10:53, Thilo Six wrote: > John Stumbles wrote the following on 06.10.2007 17:39 > > <<-snip->> > > > But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / > > (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? > > It depends on your partitionlayout. > > Apart from

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread Thilo Six
John Stumbles wrote the following on 06.10.2007 17:39 <<-snip->> > But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / > (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? It depends on your partitionlayout. Apart from that: tom once i 'rm -rf *' without recognizing i am in the wrong

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg failed

2007-10-06 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:47:36AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure couldn't reconfigure xserver-xorg because > /etc/x11/xorg.conf is being shared by something else on this system. what > might be sharing it and how might that be cleared? I don't know if it is complaining about ano

Re: (etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Márcio H. Parreiras
On 10/6/07, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after > having used dselect up to now? > > Thnaks, > > Martin > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/06/2007 08:37 AM, Michael Yang wrote: Hi: I'm working on Debian lenny/sid, with the IceDove 2.0.0.4 installed on my machine. When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. [...] I'm using Sarge, so this may not apply to you. I

xserver-xorg question

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's actually dexconf having the problem writing a file claiming the default xserver isn't configured. I may have hardware debian doesn't know how to detect on its own and didn't specify it earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

(etch) Using aptitude after using dselect - any issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after having used dselect up to now? Thnaks, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I haven't seen any place where aptitude shows any of that > information. It just shows me a warning such as: > > WARNING: This version of acpid is from an untrusted source! >Installing th

PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f0000000 is not E820-reserved

2007-10-06 Thread Richard van der Veen
Hi After i downloaded a new daily-build netisntall cd to install a new SID system i was happy the install went complete smoothly. But after the reboot i was greeted with this message: PCI:BIOS BUG: MCFG area at f000 is not E820-reserved PCI: Not using MMCONFIG PCI: Failed to allocate mem reso

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread John Stumbles
Thilo Six wrote: What you did is: chmod -R /dev 777 as it seems where inside /dev is your whole system ( e.g. /dev/hda1) But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-06 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Does anyone know what I can do to get this to work? I have a D-Link > DI-624 4port/wireless router and I know I will have to do something > there and then set up my debian server somehow. > > I appologize for being such a newbie but I am somewha

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-06 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 10/5/07, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > There is an article on slashdot, > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217&from=rss which > says that most of the phishing sites are being run from rootkitted linux > boxes. I dunno how accurate their analysis is (the

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Davide Mancusi
Michael Yang ha scritto: After applying the workaround quoted as follows, it works for me: Quote[ yeah ... the cause is that location of global config files moved down one folder. Previously we had a hack that allowed you to drop configs in /etc/icedove/ ... now we have a clean solution that int

gprof: missing output

2007-10-06 Thread michael
Folks, maybe I'm doing something wrong but I seem unable to get an annotated output from gprof nor info on which line/s are taking the time. Any suggestions? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Fortran$ uname -a Linux ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread Márcio H. Parreiras
There is another way, using 'iptables-save' and 'iptables-restore' (see 'man' for details), but personally I prefer to put the script in '/etc/init.d/' and create the symlinks with 'update-rc.d'. It's easy and clean and less likely to happen you lock yourself outside after a network restart or a re

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Yang
Davide Mancusi wrote: Martin Marcher ha scritto: When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to the

Re: Math Package to Solve Linear Equations?

2007-10-06 Thread Helmut Sennewald
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm feeling stupid. I used to have a math package which inverted matrices > to solve systems of linear equations - i.e. enter the matrix and the y > values and the program inverts the matrix and reports the x

Re: Anyone got realtime on Lenny now that schedutils is no more?

2007-10-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 06 October 2007 14:57, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 20:50:46 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I've got realtime working on Etch, with a realtime kernel from the musix > > repo, along with rtirq, and schedutils as a dependency to rtirq. Saying > > that, rtirq doesn't appe

Re: No sound in browser

2007-10-06 Thread Shams Fantar
Jeff wrote: System sounds work but can not get sound to work in BBC News (real play) or sound to work in Youtube. Sound system is ALSA and Card is Realteck AC97 now running Lenny but had the same problem in Etch. Wonder if i have left something out? Any suggestions welcome. Jeff Try : a

Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Acklin
Mihira Fernando wrote: I use afraid.org for 6 domains and have been using their service since 2001. Excellent service. Recommend it to anyone who wishes to use free or cheap DNS services. Mihira. Hi Mihira and all, I was very intrigued when I saw your message. I am in the process of se

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:40:28AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > There is an amazing software set called bastille. It runs a set of > scripts that hardens linux. Although it doesn't tell if it has been > compromised but this should be done after every new install. I found bastille to be a bit

Re: Finding installed dependencies?

2007-10-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that > should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google > has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed. > Is there a way t

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 10/6/07, Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time > on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up > command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and the other > F

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread Shams Fantar
Peter Smerdon wrote: Hello everyone. What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and the other From dumping the script in one of the /etc

Re: Xsane does not recognize scanner--Solved

2007-10-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:44:32 -0400 Tom Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Tom, > Reboot. > Successfull scan as user "tom". Aach! I should have mentioned that adding 'user' to 'group' would require you to log out and back in for it to take effect. Rebooting is a Windoze-ism

Re: script program surprise

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, that's right it's curses over here not readline. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread CaT
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:21:30AM -0400, Peter Smerdon wrote: > Hello everyone. > > What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time > on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up > command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and th

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Yang
Martin Marcher wrote: Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? That is not an option in

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Yang
Martin Marcher wrote: Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? That is not an option in

PXE booting over VPN

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm going to deploy several soekris boxes on different locations. Now those nifty things can PXE boot and I was thinking about how to update them. I think the easiest would be to PXE boot them from some server located remotely and trigger something that let's the box reboot when I need to

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Davide Mancusi
Martin Marcher ha scritto: When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to the alternatives system in

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, > iceweasel, to open this link. > I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone > point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to

Re: script program surprise

2007-10-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jude DaShiell wrote: I went and ran script and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to catch the failure happening. I was wondering why the size of the file was 137K when I finished so had me an examine of the typescript file. There's loads of ansi garbage in the file. Is there a package I can

Re: Xsane does not recognize scanner--Solved

2007-10-06 Thread Tom Ashley
Thanks to Andrew and Brad for your responses. On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:00 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:21:35 -0400 > Tom Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Tom, > > > is a USB connected Epson Perfection 1260. It worked perfectly under > > Mandriva Linux; however,

Red 5 or other Flash video server on Etch?

2007-10-06 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone out there have experience installing Red 5 (www.osflash.org/red5) on Etch? Or know of superior alternatives? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! --

How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Michael Yang
Hi: I'm working on Debian lenny/sid, with the IceDove 2.0.0.4 installed on my machine. When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? There is no res

Re: Anyone got realtime on Lenny now that schedutils is no more?

2007-10-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 20:50:46 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've got realtime working on Etch, with a realtime kernel from the musix > repo, > along with rtirq, and schedutils as a dependency to rtirq. Saying that, rtirq > doesn't appear to be running, but the chrt tool in schedutils has worked

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
What can be put into .mplayer.conf to disable video entirely so just the sound track plays? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-06 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/06/07 00:15, Serena Cantor wrote: >> I have asked many questions on the list, many are not debian >> specific, not even Linux specific, but I get a lot of help. >> Thanks > >> I have just registered a domain name. The registrar provides DNS >> service, but asks me to go

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
A good password generator can help along with setting passwords to expire on a time schedule so the password generator has to get used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread Pál Csányi
Hello! 2007/10/6, Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time > on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up > command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and the other > From dumping the sc

script program surprise

2007-10-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
I went and ran script and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to catch the failure happening. I was wondering why the size of the file was 137K when I finished so had me an examine of the typescript file. There's loads of ansi garbage in the file. Is there a package I can use to filter all of

Re: How to detect whether your machine is compromised?

2007-10-06 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Oct 5, 8:10 pm, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to everyone for contributing several tips. I am looking forward > to a highly educating weekend :) Here is a summary of packages that were > suggested in the various replies: > > aide: Advanced Intrusion Detectio

automatically loading iptables

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Smerdon
Hello everyone. What is the preferred method of starting an iptables script at boot time on Debian hosts? I have come across two common ways, one with a pre-up command that calls the script from /etc/network/interfaces and the other From dumping the script in one of the /etc/rc*/ directories. I a

Re: how to find out IP address used by router?

2007-10-06 Thread John Stumbles
Ron Johnson wrote: Most, if not every, home router made in the last 5 years has an embedded web server and an internal IP address. So if the external interface is down and thus can't get to ipchicken or whatismyip, connect to that web server and it will tell you what the external address is.

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