Re: Eclipse and CVS

2003-12-18 Thread johannes . zarl
CVSNT i know nothing > | specific about) works fine. > > Probably an older version of cvs. > Very possible. [...] > Let me know if you find out what in cvs 1.12 causes browsing to not > work and how to correct it :-). I'll post a message, if I find out. Since the bad timi

Eclipse and CVS

2003-12-18 Thread johannes . zarl
se it? Is there some checkbox in eclipse I am not aware of? Any ideas? Johannes Zarl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-08 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > IIRC, it was a prior nonproductive thread with "Tom" which pointed out > seeding and metrics as a way of estimating such bug counts. Well, at this point I should admit that I tend to ignore threads as they grow longer than one screen, break up more than once, or begin to get sub-threads...

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:43, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:15:12AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > ... That's why the kernel > > developers thought it was just an ordinary bug: they could see no way > > to exploit it. > > That statement is somewhat disconcerting. The hypothesis is

Re: [OT] port 2896

2003-12-02 Thread Johannes Zarl
> ..cat /etc/services |grep " 2896" produced nothing, try > ' lsof |grep " 2896" ' and ' ps aux |grep " 2896" '. > > ..more ideas? There is also > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22port+2896%22+tcp+udp > suggesting someone is trying to crack your wintendo. ;-) What does netstat say? Use -t and -

Re: Pop server

2003-12-02 Thread Johannes Zarl
> Can anybody recommend a good pop3 server to serve a user community of > a few thousand? Ideally something that supports APOP, SSL, etc... and > is less I/O intensive than qpopper, hopefully by a good margin? I don't know, if this applies to your case, but you can tweak the I/O intensity of q

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

2003-11-25 Thread Johannes Zarl
> This will install too many unneeded packages. I do not want to have > german stuff (docs etc.), just want my umlauts to be displayed on the > console. On my pc it helped to set convert-meta on in inputrc. This basically turns on 8-bit characters on the console. For more info see man 3 readline.

Re: USB storage device, devfs, and /dev/scsi/*

2003-11-18 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Monday 17 November 2003 22:43, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I've got a USB storage device (what should one call these things? I > hate calling it a "flash disk" since I feel it's not a disk (disc?) ;) > It worked great at one point. However, recently, it still seems to > register fine, etc etc, b

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Johannes Zarl
> And I mean, the core question is: What is the advantage of not updating > packages, when the package is in question is so old you shouldn't use > it? Sorry, if I miss the point, but if there is an advisory against using the version of snort oficially released with woody, shouldn't there also b

Re: Nessus portscan takes loooooong

2003-11-14 Thread Johannes Zarl
> However, the initial portscan takes an extremely long time... Actually, > I haven't seen it finish, because I had to turn my computer off at > night... :-) But something like 10 hours, it seems like it would need > to do a portscan... WTF? There's is a progress bar, it moves this slow. > > It is

Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...

2003-11-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
> Also, how can one get out of the whole x system under Debian? To get > back into text mode? I also haven´t found a method of booting into text. > You can always switch to text-mode via . Another solution is to press n during the kdm-login-screen (I don't know about gdm, though). If you want t

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > I think you got Colin wrong there (Colin please correct me if *I* got > > you=20 wrong:) . Colin just gave an example how easy it is to exploit > > the=20 sudo-privilege for using dpkg. > > Ah, shoot, you're right. I totally glossed over the sudo example he > suggested. I blame work; it total

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> >>=20 People keep talking about sudo like it's the cat's meow, and maybe > >>for a single-user system it is. But sudo documentation very > >>explicitly warns that, if you're not careful about what you allow, you > >>could accidentally allow access to far more than you expected. > > > >=2E..it se

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > I read your notes with interest, and indeed you helped clarify > things. Only now, I've got somehow to undo the xhost command I issued > before. > ``xhost -'' does the job. You all are right concerning the security-issues with xhost. I wasn't aware how big the issues *really* are. xhost didn

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Zarl
> user% xhost + > user% su > root! xcalc > but this is an insecure hack since in says anyone can snoop on your > xserver. You could also use ``xhost +local:'' so that you don't open your xserver to the net. ``xhost +'' is something I would only advise for debugging-purpose only.. Johannes

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-28 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 05:33, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:20:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > the distinction that's being missed here is that people don't code in > > english, people use english words as symbols in their code. there's a > > huge difference. > > Random webpage

Re: Wolfenstein ET on debian?

2003-10-23 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:33, Dennis van Turnhout wrote: > Since no one replied: > > http://tjw.org/etded/ > > The so far in this article is missing: "sh et-linux-2.55.x86.run" to > start installation AFAIK eted is the server, not the client, so this document wouldn't be of much use.. Howev

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Johannes Zarl
> apt-get said that eclipse-platform depends on j2re1.4 or j2re1.3 or > java2-runtime but these packages are not available. > How can I install eclipse? > And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? You could look into the equivs package, use it to set up a dummy-package for j2re1.4 and then instal

Re: Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

2003-08-14 Thread Johannes Zarl
> He told me > today that he can receive mobile text messages from Belgium, France, and > Croatia while he's traveling in the countryside. In fact, most (if not all) european cellphone-providers have roaming partners in all other european countries. Thus they also deliver SMS-messages across eu

Re: restarting wget?

2003-08-03 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Sunday 03 August 2003 11:39, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > If wget fails partway through recursively downloading a big website, is > there some way to start it over again, to have it download the rest of > the site without downloading everything a second time? > Perhaps the -m (--mirror) option

Re: stat question

2003-08-02 Thread Johannes Zarl
> PS still cant find coreutils or stat, though its not a problem now. > > debian:/home/web# dpkg -i coreutils > dpkg: error processing coreutils (--install): > cannot access archive: No such file or directory > Errors were encountered while processing: > coreutils > debian:/home/web# dpkg -i stat >

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-27 Thread Johannes Zarl
> Last, last thought. When I tried to setup some variables in > ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc KDE seemed not to look at them. I have been > told, though never tried it, that (assuming you are using KDM) as a > graphical loggin manager, the "default" option will read these files ! Sorry, when I wrote

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-24 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > > > look in > > > > ~/.kde/Autostart > > > > Make a file > > > > #!/bin/sh > > export ... > > > > Change its permissions to executable, > > > > This should work No, it shouldn't. Whenever you put something into ~/.kde/Autostart, it gets _executed_ on KDE startup. That means all exports i

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-21 Thread Johannes Zarl
Sorry, I don't know of any other way to automatically start a process with a given priority other than ``nice -n 10 xmms''. > As a last solution, I'd cron a script as root to renice automatically, > but I can't obtain a list of the xmms processes (' ps -A | grep xmms | > awk "{print $1}" ' gives

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Johannes Zarl
> for file in *.ogg; do > ogg123 "$file" > done > > (Since the double-quotes allow variable expansion, but force the > result to be a single "world" for shell purposes.) To deal with all (im)possible filenames, you could even do: for file in *.ogg do ogg123 -- "$file" done Just in case

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-31 Thread Johannes Zarl
B; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 03:25:13 -0600 (CST) Thanks in advance for enlightenment, Johannes Zarl -- "More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *.wma

2003-02-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
> >== Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available (enable it > at compilation!) *** Try to upgrade /home/foo/.mplayer/codecs.conf from > etc/codecs.conf *** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html! >

Re: *.wma

2003-02-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
> .wma stands for "Windows Media Audio" which is a proprietary format > developed by Microsoft and, hence, cannot be played or decoded on > Linux. At least I think they can't be played, uless maybe realplayer has > this capability (which I don't think it does). I encountered some .wma's just a few

OT: adduser vs manual file manipulation [WAS: Re: List of users from a certain group]

2003-02-02 Thread Johannes Zarl
> In general, I suggest using adduser on Debian rather than useradd. > useradd is the low-level tool; adduser is the higher-level utility which > is intended to be easier to use. I always edited the group, passwd and shadow files per hand to add/remove/alter groups/users and I never had any probl

Re: bash, but no .bashrc??

2003-01-24 Thread Johannes Zarl
~/.bashrc #fi greetings, Johannes Zarl -- "More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get rid of a wrong package?

2003-01-24 Thread Johannes Zarl
wxgtk2.4-python, then apt forgot about libwxgtk2.4. Hope my little story helps;-) greetings Johannes Zarl -- "More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Johannes Zarl
> #! /bin/sh > > # Backup entire 'myfiles/' directory, name it with the date. > > cd /usr/local/ > tar -czf /mnt/archive/autoarchive/date myfiles man bash(1): Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the command name. There are two forms: $(command) or

Re: copy many files filtering extensions

2003-01-08 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:10, Mat wrote: > I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their > extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as I can > read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)? >From what I know, cp doesn't support this. However,

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

2002-12-20 Thread Johannes Zarl
m more than one program at the same time, you'll have to use a sound-daemon like arts or esd. Johannes Zarl -- "More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.18 to 2.4.19/20 locks up

2002-12-18 Thread Johannes Zarl
Do you use arts? I just tried to upgrade to 2.4.20 and it worked fine, as long as i didn't start the artsd. It just ate my whole cpu-time and didn't react on kill -9. Now I use 2.4.18 again and it behaves again. Johannes Zarl -- "More than machinery we need humanity" --

Re: Need bttv options for Hauppauge WinTV-PCI-FM

2002-12-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
> I just switched from a Hauppauge WinTV Go to a WinTV-PCI-FM (model647). > OS Debian Woody 2.4 kernel. I've got a WinTV-PCI-FM, too, on a (home-made) 2.4.18 kernel. Mine is card=10, though autodetect should work for all recent cards(it work's on mine). > alias char-major-81 bttv > alias char-m

Re: Scandinavian carracters (åäö) =?utf-8?q?get

2002-11-20 Thread Johannes Zarl
> What do you mean by convert? > Modifing database strings or setting stuff like encoding/contentType > of the servlet response object? > I think the appropriate function is called htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars(). This should do what you want. greetings, Johannes -- "More than machinery

Re: Scandinavian carracters (åäö) get =?utf-8?q?replaced

2002-11-19 Thread Johannes Zarl
Hello, > The problem is that all åäö-carracters are exchanged > with the ? carracter in the web browser. > The JSP page has . > > Typing åäö in console and X works (not in Jbuilder > though... argh). Search queries in mysql(console client) > and mysql-navigator return OK carracters. > Are you sur

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Monday 04 November 2002 23:05, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > +evolution -- non-free client from ximian. Offers calender, etc.(a > > bit like outlook on windows) > > As Matthew Weier O'Phinney notes, Evolution is one of the Gnome email > clients - there are a number depending on the scale of program

Re: choice of software

2002-11-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Monday 04 November 2002 21:38, james leclair wrote: > Hello, Hello, too;-) > We currently run a variety if Debian products in the mail and file > serving areas. Now we are investigating the possiblity of running Debian > products on our desktops. Could someone please recommend what packages >

Re: A few Newbie Questions

2002-10-25 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > 1.) How do you uninstall packages, so that you get more "free" space > > on your harddrive? > > (exp. I used 'df -h' and seen that I had 200 mb free, I used dpkg > > to uninstall some programs, ran df again and still only had 200 mb > > free.) > > dpkg should be fine for removal although "