Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "sound-slot-0 not found", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

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2000-11-14 Thread support
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SOMETHING FOUL???????

2000-11-14 Thread matthschulz
Every mail from: H.C.Hsiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> contains an attachment Navidad.exe??? Should we think about it? I blocked at least this address at my mailprovider. Matth

Re: finding which package a file came with

2000-11-14 Thread Shane Colbert
lol.. 8+) looks like it did turn out to be a stupid one.. 8+) I definetly looked in the man page for dpkg... just don't remember seeing that option in there ohwell thanks for all of the replies.. 8+) -- Colby ? --- Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:43:36 -0800

Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Eric G . Miller
Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. Time for a killfile entry. -- Eric G. Miller "Time is Free"

Re: Manual for apt

2000-11-14 Thread H.C.Hsiang
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:22:45PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where can I download/view a manual for apt? I have 2.0 installed, so > there's no apt on my machine. apt isn't a particular command, it's a set of tools: $ apropos apt apt (8) - Adv

Re: sound-slot-0 not found

2000-11-14 Thread John Galt
It's part of ALSA--Basically, ALSA is looking for the alsa sound modules and not finding what it needs. You probably have your sound card configured with OSS modules, so alsa is pretty much irrelevant, but probably installed as a package dependency.. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Florian Reiser wrote: >

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? > > > -|- Hurgh! -|- > > PS If you would like a copy of this file I will attach it but I would not > ru

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread John Griffiths
At 03:57 PM 11/14/2000 +1100, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: >Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from >people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? > >From The Reg at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/14658.html Intel victim of pesky pre-Chr

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:57:15PM +1100, -|- Hurgh! -|- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? > > > -|- Hurgh! -|- > > PS If you would like a copy of this f

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:57:15PM +1100, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? It's the latest Windows virus. If you take a look, you'll see that one person sent o

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Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:57:15PM +1100, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? apparently its a worm designed for MS Outlook, some subscriber to the list got automa

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
Yes, it's a virus. Don't run it. See here for more details: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98881&; It's YAMOV (yet another microsoft outlook virus) "-|- Hurgh! -|-" wrote: > > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Casey Henderson
I don't know who it is but I've already caught the stupid virus. I'm not using Outlook, but being the fool that I am, I accidently ran his attachment, and it screwed up the file associations in Windows. Basically it associates .exe files with a nonexistant program so that when you try to run a pr

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike wrote: > In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages > coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this > virus, go to: > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html > > Those o

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Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! No they're not. > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > Time for a killfile entry. HCH was helping people, actually. Unfortunately though, he's using Outlook and has sent

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Mike
-|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: > Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from > people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? It's a worm. Symantec has a page for it. URL has been posted in another message. > PS If you would like a copy of this file

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...question", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Eric G . Miller wrote: > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > Time for a killfile entry. I'm sure it's related to the windows virus that is appending itself to his mails and probably not his fault

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:05:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) wrote: > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > Time for a killfile entry. navidad.exe is a Legacy MS Windows virus, Mr. Hsain

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Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Installing Debian from 2.1.R4 CD's...questions", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)

2000-11-14 Thread H.C.Hsiang
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:29:30PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > If you're really hard core about security and encryption (and I'm going > > to be heretical here, but hey, I have to plug my home), try OpenBSD. > > Since it's main repository is in Canada, US crypto laws don't apply. I > > played w

Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)

2000-11-14 Thread H.C.Hsiang
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 08:27:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > and if you want to compile them there's always 'apt-get --compile source > > packagename'. if you haven't used it before here's how it works :) > > with the annoying side affect of apt insisting on replacing the > locally compile

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open source alternative to glimpse

2000-11-14 Thread Michael Kevin O'Brien
Hola~ I've been using glimpse (4.0) to index and search large source trees. I was curious if there is an open source alternative to glimpse? MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar [EMAIL PR

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Vijay Prabakaran
Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on Windoze doing on this list anyway. Vijay. --- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mike > wrote: > > In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch > of virus infected messages > > coming through h

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Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: crypto patch (OT: ports tree)", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

2000-11-14 Thread David . Middleton
Does it serve any real purpose (other than so Doze users can collect viruses) ?? Dave

Procmail filters for attachments (was Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?)

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:14:11PM -0900, Ethan Benson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:05:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > > T

Re: helixcode gnome with debian 2.1?

2000-11-14 Thread Mike
John Griffiths wrote: > i realise "H.C.Hsiang" is not deliberately at fault. but being bombarded > by malicsious code is not good for anyone. Most certainly not good. > whats the procedure for removing someone from the list? That I don't know. I have sent a private - and hopefully polite - mess

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ethan Benson wrote: > I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that > appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage > won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. Please bear in mind that this list is for debian users, and that includ

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Manual for apt", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread John Griffiths
At work using the computer their employers provided? At 10:39 PM 11/13/2000 -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote: >Yes. Good point. What are people using M$ apps on >Windoze doing on this list anyway. > >Vijay. >--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:35PM -0500, Mik

Re: WARNING. You sent a potential virus or unauthorised code

2000-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The MessageLabs Virus Control Centre discovered a possible > virus or unauthorised code (such as a joke program or trojan) > in an email sent by you. I think I speak for all of us here when I say, STFU, and take it to a windowze-luser list. Thank you. -- see shy jo

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

2000-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does it serve any real purpose (other than so Doze users can collect > viruses) ?? Well one might think that all the work people went to to develop MIME attachments and implement them in all major mail readers was done for a reason. One might expect users of a that a sup

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Netscape in my case). Vijay Prabakaran wrote: > Yes. Good point. What are people

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:05:51PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > Time for a killfile entry. yeah it looks like this: :0 * ^X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Expres

Re: About dselect searching function

2000-11-14 Thread H.C.Hsiang
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:48:23AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the deselect,we can press "/" to search for a string in the package > name. > However,can we try to search for a string in the file description.. > it would be convenient for example,we can search for "news client" > and find

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:47:24PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Does it serve any real purpose (other than so Doze users can collect > viruses) ?? See my signature. The GPG one . Attachments of themselves aren't evil. Mailers doing things with them in such a way

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that > > appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage > > won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. > >

Re: New (to Debian) user with some (what else?) questions

2000-11-14 Thread H.C.Hsiang
Hi Marshal! On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote: > > "Maury" == Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start > > X. I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me > > and, before I sta

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: GDM and gdmchooser", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

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Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:15:52AM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > I would be OK with blocking MS Outhouse, but not Windoze > mail clients in general. Some of us have to use that 'OS' > at work, and those of us with any sense use Netscape or > Eudora (Eudora doesn't work on NT4.0, so it's Net

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Setting up an internal mirror with custom debs", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Vijay Prabakaran
Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So isn't it possible to filter out all messages with .exe files, word documents, excel docs etc from the list. These would be the main problem causing stuff. Vijay. --- Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be OK with blocking

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Re: Several problems with X

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:20:19AM +0100, Dominik Eismann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everybody! > > 1. starting X via startx as normal user, I only get something like an > xterm without window decorations, not a real X session. On the console > that I started X from, it says "Can not find

Re: XFree4.01

2000-11-14 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:35:02PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Upgraded to XFree4.01. No real difficulties, but now the screen blanks when > not in use. Wouldn't be a problem except it will sometimes not restart. Hard > to tell, given I can't see the screen, but believe it g

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Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Pollywog
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:59:35 -0500, Mike said: > In case no one has noticed yet, there are a bunch of virus infected messages > coming through here on the debian-users list. For information on this > virus, go to: > > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html > > Those

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:19:45PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Attachments of themselves aren't evil. Mailers doing things with them > in such a way as to spawn uncontrolled interference with others is. indeed. > Note that my own mailer configuration does do some automatic processing

Printer setup problem in potato

2000-11-14 Thread Ascenso Gian Piero
Hi, I'm new to Linux and to Debian. I'm just switching from CorelLinux to Debian 2.2, but I've got a problem with the installation dbootstrap script. Everything goes well until I get to configuring and installing device driver modules into the kernel. I can't configure the lp module. The s

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Ring0", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Antigen found W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus

2000-11-14 Thread ANTIGEN_SNOTES
Antigen for Exchange found Navidad.exe infected with W32/Navidad.32768.Worm virus. The file is currently Deleted. The message, "Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?", was sent from H.C.Hsiang and was discovered in IMC Queues\Inbound located at Arithmos, Inc./Arithmos/SNOTES.

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:27:46PM -0800, Vijay Prabakaran wrote: > Well I guess some people just have to use windoze. So but they DON'T have to use Outlook, if its a corporate mandate you probably shouldn't even be using corporate mail services for personal mail anyway, doing so will likely get y

newbieDoc - need some peer review

2000-11-14 Thread will trillich
we're developing newbie-oriented docs over at http://eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ so hop on by and check out our scant offerings. if you think we need to tweak one or two items here or there, please post a message and we'll see what we can do. (tom huckstep posted a bunch to http:

why windows users on debian list

2000-11-14 Thread C. Falconer
I have five debian boxes and one slackware, two NT servers and 400 NT workstations, one of which is mine. But thats the corporate world :-\ Of course home is a different matter... but it piquets my sense of humour to read debian mailing lists on work time. At 10:39 PM 11/13/00 -0800, you wr

Easy Killfile using maildrop

2000-11-14 Thread Damon Muller
Hi folks, This recent windoze virus nonsense has inspired me to put together a quick and easy killfile - something where I can just add an address to a file without having to make a new rule for each one. I though that someone out there might like to use it to. Please note that it uses maildrop,

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings that >appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this garbage >won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes out. I hereby propose we don't. This stuff doesn't harm us,

Re: WARNING - Virus infected messages on list

2000-11-14 Thread Remco van de Meent
Colin Watson wrote: > >I hearby propose that the list automatically reject all postings > >that appear to have been sent using MS Outlook. this way this > >garbage won't happen each and every time ya new Outlook worm comes > >out. > > I hereby propose we don't. This stuff doesn't harm us, and Out

QM_MODULES error - modutils

2000-11-14 Thread Janto Trappe
Hi, I'm running Potato and had recompiled the Kernel with IP masquerading. Now I had some problems and trouble with modutils: Messages on boot up: Calculating module dependencies... depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented done. Loading modules: modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implem

Re: failed to connect port 25 (AGAIN!)

2000-11-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, now I have removed postfix (/etc/init.d/postfix stop), the problem still exists. Telnet exits with the error message 'Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host'. I get this message only when I try to connect through port 25 (and that is probably the reason postfix can not send mail

Installation Problem on old machine

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Whiteley
I am trying to recycle a couple of old machines. No CD, little memory, 486 processor. When starting an install from a debian rescue floppy it gets as far as md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 and stops. Does anyone have any idea what is supposed to happen after this message? Dave --

Re: apt-get down :'(

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:46:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > i wouldn't expect slrn to affect apt -- gnome-helix is > an X window environment, so i wouldn't expect much interference > there, either. did anything interrupt power while installing? > or maybe a power loss last week might scramble

Re: Printer setup problem in potato

2000-11-14 Thread Brent Buchholz
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 08:53:03AM +0100, Ascenso Gian Piero wrote: > Hi, Hi. > script. Everything goes well until I get to configuring and installing > device driver modules into the kernel. I can't configure the lp module. Try loading parport and parport_pc before lp. They should be a bit fur

Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi I am a new debian user. I have some problems getting my network to work. What is the best way to config the network in debian 2.2 ? It seems that there is a problem finding the eth0 interface. Can anybody help me ? Knud

Re: QM_MODULES error - modutils

2000-11-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:27:45AM +0100, Janto Trappe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Potato and had recompiled the Kernel with IP > masquerading. Now I had some problems and trouble with modutils: you didn't compile in kernel module support, all the errors below are caused by that. > Messages

Re: Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Maurizio Boriani
On Tuesday 14 November 2000 10:49, Knud Sørensen wrote: > Hi > > I am a new debian user. > I have some problems getting my network to work. > > What is the best way to config the network in debian 2.2 ? > > It seems that there is a problem finding the eth0 interface. > > Can anybody help me ? > >

copycat posts with virus?

2000-11-14 Thread Damien
> *laughs* > > no, i'm afraid you've strayed quite out of your depth. this is a mailing list > for something very-not microsoft. > > > -- > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://repose.ath.cx/ > > An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but > because people refuse to see it

Re: Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Knud Sørensen
"Maurizio Boriani (by way of Maurizio Boriani )" wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 November 2000 10:49, Knud Sørensen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am a new debian user. > > I have some problems getting my network to work. > > > > What is the best way to config the network in debian 2.2 ? > > > > It seems that t

Re: Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Virginie-ML
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Knud S?rensen wrote: > Hi > > I am a new debian user. > I have some problems getting my network to work. > > What is the best way to config the network in debian 2.2 ? > > It seems that there is a problem finding the eth0 interface. I personally succee

ppp fails

2000-11-14 Thread David Purton
Reasonably often (say every 5 or so times) ppp fails to connect on my potato box. The log in dicates the following: - ppp.log --- Nov 14 21:52:24 twoflower pppd[530]: pppd 2.3.11 started by me, uid 1000 Nov 14 21:52:25 twoflower chat[531]: abort on (BUSY) Nov 14 21:52:25 twoflower chat[5

Re: Network config

2000-11-14 Thread Silver
Yes you need to have the module loaded for your network card before you can actually use the eth0 interface w/ ifconfig and such. Silver - Original Message - From: "Knud Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:13 PM Subject: Re: Network config > "Maurizio Bo

Can't install undated pkgs

2000-11-14 Thread eric k . wolven
Dear Debians: I keep getting "/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory E: Write error -write (32-broken pipe) E: Failure to run script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt" O(f course, dpkg-preconfigure is there in /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure

Re: firewalling

2000-11-14 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, > One machine I administer has this rule > > /sbin/ipchains -A input -j REJECT -i $HOTCARD -p tcp -s $ANYCIDR -d $HOTHOME > ! 20:80 -v -y $LOGIT > > This allows incoming traffic that has the SYN flag on (I.e. incoming, trying > to establish a new connection) to work only on ports 20 through

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Damien
> > Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > No they're not. > > > "H.C.Hsiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, seems to be the culprit. > > Time for a killfile entry. > > HCH was helping people, actually. yes they are :o) out of the magic of the internet i found a few

Re: What partition?

2000-11-14 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Eric G . Miller spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:18:21AM -0800: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:42AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) > wrote: > > Out of curiosity > > I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. > > The ins

Genius 3-button mouse problem

2000-11-14 Thread Knotek Vlastimil
Hi,   I have an old Genuis 3-button mouse and it doesn't work under debian linux. How can I configure my mouse under debian ?   V.Knotek  

Dynamic + static IP-address in /etc/network/interfaces

2000-11-14 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi all, I've finally got a static IP address which I want to use instead of the dynamic one I still get from my ISP via ppp. I thought it would be best to bind the static address to the dummy interface, so my /etc/network/interfaces looks like that: auto lo dummy iface lo inet loopback i

Re: ppp fails

2000-11-14 Thread John Hasler
David Purton writes: > what is the alarm message? It means that chat gave up hope of ever receiving CONNECT from the modem. > or is this just life? Yes. Your ISP probably doesn't have enough modems. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: >Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! It only happens to mails whose originals also had attachments - usually PGP/GPG signatures. I suppose it's a stealth tactic. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does the server allow attachments anyway ???

2000-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:19:45PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> Note that my own mailer configuration does do some automatic processing >> when it encounters a GPG signature. > >parsing the data and using it to verify message authenticity is a far >

Re: Can't install undated pkgs

2000-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
eric k. wolven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I keep getting "/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or >directory > E: Write error -write (32-broken pipe) >E: Failure to run script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt" > >O(f course, dpkg-preconfigure is the

Re: Okay who's this "H.C.Hsiang" ?

2000-11-14 Thread Shel Johnson
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > >Umm someone's repeating debian-user mails. This get's to be obnoxious! > > It only happens to mails whose originals also had attachments - usually > PGP/GPG signatures. I suppose it's a stealth tactic. > > -- > Colin Wa

Re: My recent RedHat experience

2000-11-14 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> John Griffiths wrote: >>> PS (and this *is* my last word on it): I simply cannot understand >>> this need to bash RedHat, or the stereotyping of all its users as >>> incorrigible newbies. I used RH for a long time, I switc

fullscreen apps (in X) - windowmanager support?

2000-11-14 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, The best way (as far as I know the only way) to get an app to full screen in X, is to drop the resolution (assuming you have many modelines defined) to the resolution of the app, or the smalelst resolution a little larger, then to "position" the display correctly. The big problem is acciden

Re: failed to connect port 25

2000-11-14 Thread iehrenwald
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just installed Postfix mailerdeamon, and now I am unable to send > email out of the network. After searching, I discovered that I am also > unable to telnet to the smtp port of the delivery-mailserver. That is: > > $ telnet mail.somewhere.nl 25 > Tr

soundcard log messages

2000-11-14 Thread Anthony Fox
I have a Soundblaster Live XGamer soundcard for which I have the alsa drivers installed and working fine. When I booted my computer this morning, dmesg gives me the following two errors: Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Nov 14 09:06:09 driver kernel: snd: Ensoniq A

Re: can't locate module tap0 (tap1,tap2,...,tap15)

2000-11-14 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/13/00, 5:57:28 PM, Krzys Majewski wrote: > How do I fix this? More generally, where do I look if I'm > having problems of this form? -chris alias tap0 ethertap options tap0 -o tap0 unit=0 ... alias tap15 ethertap options tap15 -o tap15 unit=15 There's an ethertap readme with diald and the

Re: soundcard log messages

2000-11-14 Thread Ray Percival
The Ensoniq message refers to the chipset for the SBLive. Looks like your driver has gone the way of all the world. -- Original Message -- From: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Anthony Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:44:08 -0500

Re: finding which package a file came with

2000-11-14 Thread Allan F. Caetano
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:43:36PM -0800, Shane Colbert wrote: >> you'll just have to forgive me if this is a stupid >> question but is there any way to easily find out which >> deb package a particular file came from?? Eric> $ dpkg

update

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Mason
I am running potato, and I notice that there is to be a 2.2r2 release in ten days. What's the easiest way to update all the code on my server, are there any snafu's to watch out for? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 38

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