Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

2001-07-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:41:16PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Yeah I read that. That was before I realized I could take a look at > the /etc/group file to see what groups I belonged to (and I'm sure > there's a more refined method for that too ;^) ), so I wasn't really > sure what groups I was

apt-get source (0.5.3) and finding versions of source packages

2001-07-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I just installed apt 0.5.3 (compiled on potato). I was hoping it would help me in fetching sources. My current sources.list points for binaries (deb) to stable for sources (deb-src) to stable and testing I see that there exists the new option apt-get source slrn=0.9.6.2-9potato1

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/16/01 11:27:32 -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > http://www.ebbs.com.au/~mark/cups-gimp-print.html ), and it actually Hi, I tried getting printing set up on a potato system with the instructions found at the above URI, but I seem to be having a bit of a problem. All apparently went well with ins

portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece at the following URL: http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php comparing portsentry and snort. It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry. Any comments? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Sam Varghese
I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a dozen or more GUI mail programs. I have managed to configure most of what I want in mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. I'd like to have a few folders into which I can move mail after reading but if the mail supposed to go there does so

fetchmail fails to RETR?

2001-07-18 Thread Graham Williams
I've set up fetchmail to retireve via POP3 on one machine successfully. Same set up (as far as I can determine) on another machine fails. Using other ways of retrieiving POP3 mail on this other machine works just fine. The POP3 with fetchmail fails once it tries to download the messages: ===

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:37:57PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a > dozen or more GUI mail programs. > > I have managed to configure most of what I want in > mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. > > I'd like to have a few folders into which

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Rebecca Dridan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:37:57PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: > I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a > dozen or more GUI mail programs. > > I have managed to configure most of what I want in > mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. > > I'd like to have a few folders into which

Re: portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread Adam Shand
> It is the first time I have read anything negative about portsentry. while a lot of what the author is saying is true portsentry and snort are two quite different things. really the only thing they have in common is that they are designed to improve the security of your network/server. portse

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Sam Varghese on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:37:57PM +1000: > I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a > dozen or more GUI mail programs. > > I have managed to configure most of what I want in > mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. > > I'd like to have a few folders into whic

Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

2001-07-18 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan the scsi bus (cfr "drvconfig; disks" on Solaris) ? Thanks in advance, Nico - "It has been said that there ar

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread William Morris
Sam I am no expert with mutt, but I use the 's' command to save to a mailbox. After hitting s, mutt prompts with the name of a mailbox and I can then change it if I want to. The relevant entries in my ~/.muttrc are: # Set the directory in which mailboxes will be saved set folder=~/mail # Save a

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
Wayne Topa uttered: > > Subject: Re: How to set up a "prefect" router > Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:30AM +0200 > > In reply to:Raffaele Sandrini > > Quoting Raffaele Sandrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:02, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > > > > Is there a one

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread User zos
Compiling Pine on a debian system doesn't work out of the box in my experiance. There are .debs of Pine 4.22 last time I checked, but its been a while. I have compiled Pine on a few debian boxen and if you are interested in making a compile from source work (the better option vs. a debianized sourc

Boot-CD for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or JFS?

2001-07-18 Thread Andreas Rabus
Hi, i try to install an Woody box and perhaps a second and third..., and want to use a journaling fs. A search with google and -groups didn't reveal anything useful (better to much to find the useful ones) so i ask you: Is there a boot cd for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or JFS? I dont wont to do

Re: [OT] beware citibank!

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Mackinney
Jens Gecius uttered: > Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ---Very OffTopic--- > > Mozilla just doesn't work. > Further OffTopic: I can't get Mozilla to do java. I'm using the nightly builds, the installer works great. If I follow the link they recommend to install Java support from

Re: Boot-CD for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or JFS?

2001-07-18 Thread Byeong-Jun Park
you can get iso image for woody base install cd. http://kuls.korea.ac.kr/%7Ebobo/debian-netinstall-beta_full.iso type at boot: prompt linux flavor=reiserfs it add options using reiserfs with kernel 2.4.6 B. Park - Original Message - From: "Andreas Rabus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, User zos wrote: > Compiling Pine on a debian system doesn't work out of the box in my > experiance. There are .debs of Pine 4.22 last time I checked, but its been > a while. I have compiled Pine on a few debian boxen and if you are > interested in making a compile from source

Re: apache 1.3.9/stable

2001-07-18 Thread Ulf Rompe
Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does anybody have a clue regarding user-authorization in > apache-stable? I would do everything for a look into your Bilderalbum. ;-) > I'm trying pretty hard to get it to work on my box, but it just > doesn't work. Not with access.conf entries nor with

Re: Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

2001-07-18 Thread Martin Flick
Hallo Nico, Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without > having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan > the scsi bus (cfr "drvconfig; disks" on Solaris) ? this simple script works fine for me: , | #!/bin/sh | |

Re: seting up a gateway

2001-07-18 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Sam Varghese (on Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:39:54AM +1000): > Do you need to specifically install ipchains? I've been led to > believe otherwise. Or does this set up your basic ipchains rules?a you need to install ipchains/iptables only if you need to do NAT. for regular routing of official I

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Tansom
I'm afraid I have to suggest Smoothwall :-) Boots of a CD to install (or floppy or network install if needed) and gives you a nice modem/isdn/ethernet firewall (take your pick), web front end for management, and it's not such a huge download for an ISO (around 22M). Of course if you just want a p

Re: Sound Support

2001-07-18 Thread Sebastiaan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Case, Benjamin wrote: > I apt-got the kernel-source-2.4.6. I have compiled a kernel and it works > great. I just d/l the source for pcmcia-cs and comiled that and I use that > module now too. I just realized I forgot the modules for my Soundblaster. > How can I add the necessa

Re: Boot-CD for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or JFS?

2001-07-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Andreas Rabus wrote: Hi, i try to install an Woody box and perhaps a second and third..., and want to use a journaling fs. A search with google and -groups didn't reveal anything useful (better to much to find the useful ones) so i ask you: Is there a boot cd for woody with ReiserFS or XFS or

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-18 Thread Henrik Enberg
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I should add one extremely annoying and frustrating problem I > have recently had in xemacs21-gtk/Gnus: > > I can select data in another X window, and paste into a Gnus > message. That is good, normal, defacto X behaviour. > > However, if somebody sen

HELP: changing domainname of a machine??

2001-07-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! seems a stupid problem... but i didn't managed to solve it since now... i ahve a machine that travels a lot, and has to adapt its domainname to each new location (its not a laptop) setting the domainname et run time is quite dangerous :D my machien freezed as i tryed it so what's t

HELP: qmail-smtp isn't started by default????

2001-07-18 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! i never really used the incoming mail feature of my qmail setup of my home server... since i normally get my mail through our corporate mail service, but now i needed it, and it didn't worked i have a sid-machine running qmail... looked through the setups couldn't find anything... tr

Re: [OT} Linux and reiserfs

2001-07-18 Thread Frank Zimmermann
MaX in the FaX wrote: Sean Quinlan wrote: * Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-15 19:40): Unofficial reiserfs install disks seem to come and go quite regularly, the site I got mine from no longer exists... but this site looks like it has pretty much the same disks: http://debianb

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-18 Thread Bernie Boudet
> By messing arround, you must be able to find wich bootmessage to give to > the kernel. > Mine looks like#boot: linux(image'compact'rescuediskette) smart2=0x6000 > sim710=addr:0x8000,irq:15 Thanks for the info about boot parameters. The RAID controller on this Proliant 4500 is in eisa slot-1.

Re: How to write a man page?

2001-07-18 Thread Colin Watson
Aaron Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've had success writing man pages in POD, Perl's psuedo-documentation >language. Yeah, there's a wishlist bug (#96781) open against man-db to provide examples of man pages in various languages. I can do POD and an example of DocBook is mentioned in the bug r

Converting SuSE to Debian

2001-07-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, I would like to convert my SuSE-installation to Debian. Of course, I know, I could simply boot from an installation CD and then do the whole installation procedure. But I don't want to. So, my question: - I would like to some programs (like dpkg/dselect and the like) to my running Su

gnucash missing /etc/gnucash/config

2001-07-18 Thread William S.
Today I updated and upgraded my packages running on unstable on a 2.4.5 kernel. When I run gnucash though I am getting: gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/etc/gnucash/config" I looked at /etc/gnucash but it is empty. Is there another way to generate the config setup in my home directory (which I g

How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread Guenter Millahn
Dear Debian guys, probably this is a FAQ. Apologize in that case. I have a WWW server running (Debian woody on i386, Apache 1.3.20, PHP4, some additional modules) Since some weeks I can see the following behaviour: If a HTML/PHP/whatever source in the Document tree was changed, I can see the cha

compiling gnucash - guiles "require.scm" location

2001-07-18 Thread William S.
I have been trying to compile gnucash. I run ".configure" normally and then "make". However, during "make" there is an error message saying that "require.scm" in guile can't be found. I notice the directories being searched are not the correct path. "require.scm" is in: /usr/share/guile/1.4/slib

Re: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread smokez
Sounds like a caching issue either with the browser or a caching sever which browser are you using? adam On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:27 am, Guenter Millahn wrote: > Dear Debian guys, > > probably this is a FAQ. Apologize in that case. > > I have a WWW server running (Debian woody on i386, Apach

Question about the --color option of ls

2001-07-18 Thread M . PITZL
Hello, how does this color feature of ls work? If i make an alias like ls='ls --color' the output of ls is colored in some way. It colores executable files, subdirectories and symbolic links. As far as i have seen yet, there's a file called DIR_COLORS under /etc/ where a lot of more color stuff is

Re: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread Guenter Millahn
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, smokez wrote: > Sounds like a caching issue > either with the browser or a caching sever > > which browser are you using? > > adam > > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:27 am, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > Dear Debian guys, > > > > probably this is a FAQ. Apologize in that case. >

Re: Question about the --color option of ls

2001-07-18 Thread M . PITZL
Hi, i found the answer myself :) You have to create a own dircolors file in your homedir with dircolors -p > .colorsrc. This file one have to load into the LS_COLORS environment variable with eval `dircolors .dircolorsrc`. This works fine now :) Greets, Matthias > Hello, > > how does this color

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

2001-07-18 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to convert my SuSE-installation to > Debian. > Of course, I know, I could simply boot from an > installation CD and then do > the whole installation procedure. But I don't want > to. Come on man just 15Mb for base.tgz; then t

Re: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread M . PITZL
Hello, have you tried to set the expires meta tag on your pages? Perhaps this will help you. This informs the browser to get the page under all circumstances from the webserver and to do no caching. Regards, Matthias > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, smokez wrote: > > > Sounds like a caching issue > > eit

Re: Question about the --color option of ls

2001-07-18 Thread Sean Quinlan
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-18 12:10): > how does this color feature of ls work? > If i make an alias like ls='ls --color' the output of ls is colored in some > way. > It colores executable files, subdirectories and symbolic links. > As far as i have seen yet, there's a file ca

Re: boot problem

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: >On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:12:56AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: >| On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0100, J.A.Serralheiro wrote: >| > well maybe you misconfigured your video card. >| > Run xf86config. Its a text based environment and re-do the configurations. >|

Re: mozilla and java (was [OT] beware citibank!)

2001-07-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Further OffTopic: I can't get Mozilla to do java. I'm using > the nightly builds, the installer works great. If I follow the > link they recommend to install Java support from the > netscape sight, it claims success but then every time I > launch mozilla after that it tells me that I need to rest

Perl Question Recap

2001-07-18 Thread Hamma Scott
Mike's Question: I want to delete a directory that will have files in it...I don't know the name of the files there for wildcards might be needed I understand that "rmdir" will wipe out an empty directoryand "unlink" will wipe out files (only if I know the names of the files) Wha

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
I'd not go through the BIOS rom, I'd go through the NIC. Less chance of losing hundred$ of dollars of silicon. AMD Lance, Intel EE16, and some NE2K's had onboard PROMS for ISA; NE2K-PCI, 10bt Tulips, and most early PCI cards had them as well, but they rapidly became extinct. On Tue, 17 Jul 2001

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: > >I know PINE is not what debian users use, >but i recently convinced my girlfriend to >let me install debian on her windows computer. >Her only gripe with using it is >that there are no debs of Pine. > >She has tried building it from source >downloaded from washi

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ari Pollak wrote: >On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:23:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I haven't used pine in ages. Switched to mutt not long ago, and haven't >> looked back.. But, there was a 'mana' package, which appears to be a >> fork from pine. Worked about as well when

Re: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread Guenter Millahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 18. Juli 2001: > have you tried to set the expires meta tag on your pages? > Perhaps this will help you. > > This informs the browser to get the page under all circumstances from the > webserver and to do no caching. > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, smokez wrot

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Calvin Chong wrote: >on 7/18/01 11:42 AM, Jeff Maxson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, dude wrote: >> >>> >>> I know PINE is not what debian users use, >>> but i recently convinced my girlfriend to >>> let me install debian on her windows computer. >>> Her

Re: portsentry

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Sam Varghese wrote: >This is a bit off-topic. Yesterday I read a piece >at the following URL: > >http://www.linux.ie/articles/portsentryandsnortcompared.php > >comparing portsentry and snort. Next on their list is to compare apples and oranges... >It is the first time I have

Re: Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

2001-07-18 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nico De Ranter wrote: >Howdy, > >is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without >having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan >the scsi bus (cfr "drvconfig; disks" on Solaris) ? scsiadd (it may be in woody+). HTH >Thanks in advance, > >Nico > >

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

2001-07-18 Thread Lukas Ruf
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > --- Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > > > I would like to convert my SuSE-installation to > > Debian. > > Of course, I know, I could simply boot from an > > installation CD and then do > > the whole installation procedure. But I don't

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-18 Thread Frans Schreuder
www.freesco.org; min requirements: i386; 6Mb You can have a lot of services (insecure and stuff) but it'll exceed the min. specs. Kernel=2.0.38 Thanks > Is there a one floppy linux you can recommend. I must have ppp included? Do i > have to make one by myself. If yes - how? Wich kernel whould be t

Weird logcheck entries..

2001-07-18 Thread Dan Berdine
I have logcheck running on my machine, and occasionally I random failed ftp connections (not sure if I should be worried and don't know what to do anyway) but also several other things that I completely don't understand. They have to do with my ethernet connection, but it seems to work just fi

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Andy Mott
David Turetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > To copy mail into a folder (does not overwrite existing mail in that > folder), just depress C and specify the folder to the resulting dialog > when viewing that piece of mail, or from the index > > To just save the folder copy, depress d, then follow

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

2001-07-18 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:27:02PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Steve Kieu wrote: > > > > So, my question: > > > - I would like to some programs (like dpkg/dselect > > > and the like) to my > > > running SuSE linux and then start a program that > > > (like dselect) which > > >

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread David Turetsky
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:37:57PM +1000, Sam Varghese muttered: Sam> Sam> I am a newbie to mutt - after flirting with a Sam> dozen or more GUI mail programs. Sam> Sam> I have managed to configure most of what I want in Sam> mutt but the setting up of folders just beats me. Sam> Sam> I'd like to

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-18 Thread Victor
Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>: >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things > as regular user. First of all, thanks Joost, it now works for the postgres superuser only, not for other

how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Linuxero
Hello: Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N Thanks

Re: Setting up printing

2001-07-18 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > Brian, what's been said about CUPS is true, and that's what I use. > > I guess you haven't heard all that's been said about CUPS... I meant on *this* thread. :-) > > In any case, any system you us

New-to-Debian

2001-07-18 Thread K.P
Hello, I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain some feedback as to whether Debian is appropriate for new users.   All the help is appreciated.   Sincerely,   Kaushik Prasad.  

Real Player

2001-07-18 Thread Jesper Holmberg
I am trying to install Real Player, and I have downloaded the package from real.com. However, as I install the realplayer deb with: apt-get install realplayer it crashes after the first dialogue with this message: dpkg: error processing realplayer (--configure): subprocess post-installation sc

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-18 Thread Frans Schreuder
> Thanks for the heads-up on that one. Unfortunately it's too late > ;-(, still I can boot from the Compaq configuration floppy ok. > If you can mail a copy of your lilo.conf that would help a lot. Forgot that it is on another machine:-) Here it is; I got rid of some less usefull things to keep i

Re: perl question

2001-07-18 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: > > What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it? > rm -rf directory But if you don't want to spawn a sh. Check all this as it is off the cuff and I would usually use backticks or system to do this type of thing. #!/usr/bin/per

Re: HELP: qmail-smtp isn't started by default????

2001-07-18 Thread frankie
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hello! > [...] > tcpserver -u 71 -g 65534 0 smtp /usr/sbin/qmail-smtpd & > > > this is similar to what i found in the init script: > sh -c "start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ >--exec /usr/bin/tcpserver -- \ >-S -

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-18 Thread Bernie Boudet
> I'm sorry; does the line say boot: smart2.. or boot: linux > smart2.. boot: linux smart2=0x1000 sim710=addr:0x9000,irq:9 > > However, I don't understand why the on board scsi is not detected > > with 'compact' floppies. From the kernel_config file: > > I think it has to do with the

Re: Screwed up cursor under X

2001-07-18 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:21:11PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > Hi, > I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X 3.3.6. > Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now a white > long and thin rectangular box with a couple of vertical transparent l

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Joel Mayes
"Linuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? > What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? > The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N > > Thanks > Aah. printers and Linux :) You should read the printing howto for a

Re: Compaq Proliant 370 installation

2001-07-18 Thread Frans Schreuder
http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/pl4500.html Don't think you want to read that.. Thanks for the pointer anyway. Frans > LILO makes a backup of the boot sector before overwiting, I've been saved by > this before - RTM for a way to restore (I can't remember off-hand). You > could also co

Screwed up cursor under X

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X 3.3.6. Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now a white long and thin rectangular box with a couple of vertical transparent lines passing through it, and it happens under all window managers. It mo

Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread Case, Benjamin
Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of changes.

deblist - a small program that may or may not be useful

2001-07-18 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello fellow debian users, I wrote a little C-Program that may or may not be ;-) useful for people like me, that use a system that is a mix of woody and sid packages. It downloads a list of all available packages from the official woody and sid archives at http://http.us.debian.org, then it compa

Re: How to set up a "prefect" router

2001-07-18 Thread Lamer
eh, i almost make myself into looking for 'free SCO'... :) -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Frans Schreuder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raff

RAID

2001-07-18 Thread shyamk
Can somebody please tell me all about RAID . If I set up RAID autodetect on say /dev/hda4 , does it destroy data any where ? Please bring me in perspective ... Thanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

Re: New-to-Debian

2001-07-18 Thread harshu
hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > Hello, > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain > some feedback as to whether Debian is appropriate for new users. > I am newbi

Mail Reports

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Rae
Title: Mail Reports Hi got a few quick questions about exim: 1.  Theres a few items in my mailq that I want to remove, how do I delete them? 2.  How can I run of reports for mail that has been sent?  i.e. produce a report saying x mails have been sent in this time period, or user x has sent

Re: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

2001-07-18 Thread Harvey Werner
Hi Trev, Did you ever solve this problem? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html Or, did you have to reinstall your Linux system? Harvey Werner Title: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Paul Huygen
"Linuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? > What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? > The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N 1) Make sure that your kernel supports the parallel port and printers on the parallel port. 2)

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety > consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. > move, copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better practice to use CLI > w/ suid t

Re: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

2001-07-18 Thread Harvey Werner
Hi Trev, In reference to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html and your problem with renaming the Linux loader shared library, I managed to find the fix to this problem. You see, I too used mv to move ld-linux.so.2 to ld-linux.so.2.old and from that point on, of course, no shell

Re: Mail Reports

2001-07-18 Thread tps
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:18:39PM +0100, Paul Rae wrote: > Hi got a few quick questions about exim: > > 1. Theres a few items in my mailq that I want to remove, how do I delete > them? exim -Mrm message-id > 2. How can I run of reports for mail that has been sent? i.e. produce a > report say

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread harsha
hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:55:17AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > with > it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce horribly > distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seem

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting Joel Mayes on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:04:27AM +1000: > "Linuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello: > > > > Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? > > What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? > > The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N > > > > T

Re: Help PLEASE!!! -- big ld problem

2001-07-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Harvey Werner wrote: > Did you ever solve this problem? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html > > Or, did you have to reinstall your Linux system? If only the symlink is nuked, just boot with a rescue floppy, get a shell, mount the

Segmentation error

2001-07-18 Thread shyamk
What is segmentation error and how do you solve it ? Thanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

Re: Screwed up cursor under X

2001-07-18 Thread Greg Wiley
On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X 3.3.6. > Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now a white > long and thin rectangular box with a couple of vertical transparent lines > pa

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:09:20PM +, Victor wrote: > Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>: > >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges > > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things > > as regular user. > > First of all, thanks

SOLVED: How to make HTML changes avail immediately?

2001-07-18 Thread Guenter Millahn
Guenter Millahn schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 18. Juli 2001: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 18. Juli 2001: > > have you tried to set the expires meta tag on your pages? > > Perhaps this will help you. > > > > This informs the browser to get the page under all circumstances from the > > w

Re: hard drives

2001-07-18 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:41, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:48PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: > > > > 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is > > > > that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. > > > > > > > >

Am I being attacked?

2001-07-18 Thread Bruce Perens
The answer is probably yes, but do the following indicate script-kiddie probes? They are directed at portmap, lpr, and nmbd. I don't know why the ones on the smtp port were rejected. The .184 system is my router. Thanks Bruce Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=6 216.103.219.35:179

Re: Real Player

2001-07-18 Thread Greg Madden
Jesper Holmberg wrote: > > I am trying to install Real Player, and I have downloaded the package > from real.com. However, as I install the realplayer deb with: > > apt-get install realplayer > > it crashes after the first dialogue with this message: > > dpkg: error processing realplayer (--con

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread Hall Stevenson
> Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any > security and safety consious Debian users would > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better > practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of > changes. If you're referring to gmc's

Re: Mail Reports

2001-07-18 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Rae wrote: > 2. How can I run of reports for mail that has been sent? i.e. produce a > report saying x mails have been sent in this time period, or user x has sent > the following mails, etc You could install lire and configure it to send you daily reports of exim's activity, derived f

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

2001-07-18 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any | > security and safety consious Debian users would | > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, | > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better | > practice to use C

locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Mike Dresser
router:~# locate \* | wc -l 68558 router:~# updatedb router:~# locate \* | wc -l 91395 Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb runs as nobody. Is there a particular danger in running this as ot

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:55, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce > horribly distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seems to me that > I have th

Re: PINE

2001-07-18 Thread florentin ionescu
Downloiad the recent version of pine 4.33, APPLY the pathces(check main page at UW for pine, are somewhere at top.) I found that at least 2 of them must be applied all.patch and time.patch I think Run ./build lnx. If still have problems, identify the file-problem and input at top something li

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Mike Dresser
I believe there's a restricted locate, called slocate. Then again, it looks like it's trying to do the same thing anyways, so that's what's confusing me. Fortunately, I have no shell users =) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >

Re: locatedb question

2001-07-18 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 >files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb >runs as nobody. Is there a particular danger in running this as other >than nobody? On multi-u

Re: Am I being attacked?

2001-07-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > The answer is probably yes, but do the following indicate script-kiddie > probes? They are directed at portmap, lpr, and nmbd. I don't know why the > ones on the smtp port were rejected. The

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