Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
Noah, The more programs running on a computer, the less secure it is. A firewall can run a mimimal system - see the LEAF project with deep Debian roots. If you run a firewall running out of RAM then not only will it be minimal, but no trojans can live beyond a reboot. Of course no computer is i

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:53:05PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | On Thursday 18 April 2002 07:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, | > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear | >

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-19 Thread DSC Extra
> Michael> Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball > Michael> over Windoze and my slow line. > > If you have a weblink that will work with linux why not just use a net > install. The problem above is probably not with woody, but with your > floppy drive. Floppies are notoriou

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:16:50PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | Noah, | | The more programs running on a computer, the less secure it is. A | firewall can run a mimimal system - see the LEAF project with deep Debian | roots. If you run a firewall running out of RAM then not only will it be | mini

Re: Woody not ready, methinks

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
Windoze is notoriously bad about downloading binary files because it always wants to apply some filter or file `opening' program. But, assuming that you can get the rescue and root disk donwloaded and written to good floppies, the net install will go pretty smooth from then on, especially if you j

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
The first mistake is running Windows. The second mistake is not putting Windows machines all on their own subnet with a firewall between it and the `good' machines on the Linux subnet. Aynone who can secure Windows itself with a firewall product has a ready and steady market! -- Sincerely, Dav

Upgrade to Woody

2002-04-19 Thread David Smead
Thanks to all who provided helpful hints on moving from potato to woody. While documentation is good, suggestions by people who have done it are icing on the cake. I was able to do it today with minimal problems. The only problem that I saw was on apache, which wasn't in the potato release, but s

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread Robert_L
On Friday 19 April 12:29, craigw wrote: > If you've tried any other distros, chances are you've already > experienced one or more. For example, Mandrake's default is to install > kdm and RedHat's is gdm, the one ximian installs is of course gdm. I > happen to like gdm, because you can add new entr

Re: Upgrade to Woody

2002-04-19 Thread Glyn Millington
David Smead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BTW, today marks an anniversary for me - one week ago today I downloaded > the two boot floppies and did the first net install. Tchah! Any excuse for a party! Glad it worked for you ;-) Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet

Re: timed package ...

2002-04-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a package containing timed (the time server daemon) ? ntpd? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear It's something the person you're sending to will have to do. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:58:41 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 17, 2002, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > Created two copies of the 2.4.16 kernel source and have currently been > > > running two endles

Re: netscape bus error

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:05:24PM +1000, John Habermann wrote: > | Hi > | > | Do support for a community group that recycles computers installs debian > and > | gives them to low income people. One of the recipients is issues with > | Net

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread John
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:43:14AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:54:48PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > How can I cut-n-paste something that shows as a link in Mozilla > > > and/or the gnome terminal? Every key co

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Troy Telford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way in Linux (or UNIX and its cousins in general) to run a > process (like a long, gnarled process that can take several > hours/days), and detatch it from a shell such that it runs in the > background (with stdin/out going

Re: timed package ...

2002-04-19 Thread Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a package containing timed (the time server daemon) ? > > ntpd? ya, i know that there are packages for ntp, but i need the 'timed' daemon ... @+ -- DouRiX -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: timed package ...

2002-04-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: > ya, i know that there are packages for ntp, but i need the 'timed' > daemon ... It comes with it. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:57:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > > happen. any pointers welcome... > > > > just got a 'heads up' from an ally at my isp that someone

Re: timed package ...

2002-04-19 Thread Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: > > > ya, i know that there are packages for ntp, but i need the 'timed' > > daemon ... > > It comes with it. so it should have been replaced by it I suppose, because i do not find any 'timed' after instal

Re: timed package ...

2002-04-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: > so it should have been replaced by it I suppose, because i do not find > any 'timed' after installing the package 'ntp' and 'ntp-simple' ? You should be serving time with ntpd, from ntp (not ntp-simple, which only has ntpdc) -- Baloo

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread craigw
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:49AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > On Friday 19 April 12:29, craigw wrote: > > > If you've tried any other distros, chances are you've already > > experienced one or more. For example, Mandrake's default is to install > > kdm and RedHat's is gdm, the one ximian installs is

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread craigw
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 12:32:09AM -0700, John wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:43:14AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:54:48PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > It just might prevent useless non-answers. > > Geesh,

Tomcat4 FilePermission problem with DeployedServices.ds

2002-04-19 Thread Gerhard Pauls
Hi, i want to set up a soap server using apache and tomcat4. I installed apache, tomcat4, libtomcat4-java, tomcat4-webapps, j2sdk1.3, libsoap-java, mail.jar, activation.jar etc. Tomcat ist working fine, i can run those examples. Soap seems to run as well, i can start the admin interface at localho

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2002-04-19 Thread LM Ho
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Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. Just realised that someone has logged on and cd-ed to my directory and downloaded a mailbox. Now as it happens, the only data on that machine is admin messages from cron an

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Mark Janssen
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is > given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. > Just realised that someone has logged on and cd-ed to my directory and > downloaded a mailbox. > But how can I prevent people d

Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to the packages. Could someone please point me to this tool ? P.S. I know about deborphan, it is not what I mean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Samba Messaging

2002-04-19 Thread Tinus Kotze
Hi I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. I can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am connected to a LAN. My username is "jmak" and i will use a friends win2k machine to show some examples who's username is "mindlessdemon" My

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 03:57, will trillich wrote: > debian-users: i've got what may be a nasty situation about to > happen. any pointers welcome... > > does 'presumed innocent' operate on the mentality of the average > isp? i'm getting the impression it does NOT... > > ideas? help! > > (hopeful

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:48, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is > > given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. > > Just realised that someone has logged on and cd-ed to my directory a

Building a custom debian cd

2002-04-19 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello I know that woody contains an enormous nimber of packages I need only a fraction of the package for my normal work I would like to make a custom bootable cd with a set of commonly used packages. The intended packages are right now in /var/cache/apt/archive What I should do to con

DIGITAL SERIAL HUB

2002-04-19 Thread Jorge Alberto Serralheiro
Does anyone remember the popular hub that was manufactured by Digital to connect several text terminals ? Well, we want to do something just like that, but instead of getting a hub, we build one that multiplexes one serial port ( say ttyS0 ) by eight serial devices, that is, text terminals and othe

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-19 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:43:23PM +0200, Martin Zipfel wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:47:48 +1000 > Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after > > this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom. > > > i think this is due to you

Re: Building a custom debian cd

2002-04-19 Thread Sami Dalouche
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search custom debian cd debian-cd - Tools for building (Official) Debian CD set [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show debian-cd Package: debian-cd Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 1136 Maintainer: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Vers

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 17:25, Patrick Kirk wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:48, Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > > I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is > > > given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. > > > Just re

gated on Woody

2002-04-19 Thread Daniel.Marquez-Klaka
Hiya, I'm trying to get gated working on an fresh installed woody. It compiles with no errors but I can't even bring gated to check his conf file (-C). All I get is an simple "Abort". I'm still on the default installation Kernel. My question now is there something in the kernel that need to be tu

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Rick Pasotto quotation: > > > The way I usually do it in gnome-terminal is to select too much. This > > way I click outside the link and select a bit of leading/trailing text > > along with the link. > > That works but is a cludgy work-around that requires additional editing > thus nulli

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Wördehoff
If you're not insisting on the 'log-out'-point, it would be quite easy here's an unreflected idea for an improvement: Perhaps your machines could steadily run as 'I'mStillHere#' and users entering their home-environment by 'su' ( instead of login - so you've got to tweek a little with ~/.bash

Changing whcih level the Gnome mixer applet contorls

2002-04-19 Thread stan
How can I do this. Right clicking on the applet does nto seem to get a "properties" choice. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Will Gnome 2.0 make it inot Woody?

2002-04-19 Thread stan
Just curiosn -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

RE: Swapfiles

2002-04-19 Thread Smith, Brian N.
Ah Ok, so the question becomes do I write the contents of the memory I am replacing back to disk? For a application I do not, but for data I do (Or is it even more intelligent and affect only data that has changed?) One question still remains though (and I am sure many more do as well), what actua

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-19 Thread John Habermann
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:04, dave mallery wrote: > > question: can i simply: dpkg -r kernel-image-2.4.18_custom1.0_i386.deb ?? > > > it needs to be obliterated, since it can't use the monitor. will the > above -r also re-arrange my /etc/lilo.conf? or do i have to do that by > hand? You can just r

Re: Will Gnome 2.0 make it inot Woody?

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:36:38AM -0400, stan wrote: > Just curiosn I doubt it. If the projections hold, it won't be released until after woody, and the GNOME 2 people have discouraged distributions from including it in official releases until it's released itself. http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:41:44AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:31:46AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200203/msg02337.html > > How do you come up with these URL? Do you have some trick to do it > quickly? I know

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:45:22PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to > the packages. > > Could someone please point me to this tool

Re: Detatch and re-attatch shell/process?

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Price
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:45PM +0200, Michael W?rdehoff wrote: > If you're not insisting on the 'log-out'-point, it would be quite easy actually, screen does not care if you log out, disconnect an x-session or terminal, etc. just reconnect to the system as the same user and reconnect to

firewall limitations (was Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?)

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:11:37PM -0700, David Smead wrote: | The first mistake is running Windows. True. | The second mistake is not putting Windows machines all on their own | subnet with a firewall between it and the `good' machines on the Linux | subnet. It makes no difference. The windows

Re: Woody not ready, methinks: floppies

2002-04-19 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't know; one keeps hearing floppies disparaged. However, i did several installs using root, rescue, base, and driver floppies because I was using speakup-enabled disks and didn't have a cd burner. I never ever had one single problem doing this (this was with potato). Yes, floppies can fail, bu

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 05:58:59PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > I'm setting up a general use box for my family. It > would be easier on all if there was a graphical login. > I'm wondering which of these display managers to > choose? Does anyone know of a comparison? We'll be > using WindowMaker an

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:49AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > 3. numlock on (how the heck do you do this for the gdm login screen ?) Ask google about numlockx. Simple little app that will turn numlock on and off for you in X; just compile it, throw it in /usr/local/bin, and add /usr/local/bin/num

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to > > the packages. > > I think you're looking for popularity-contest No, p

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:16:50PM -0700, David Smead wrote: > I will tell you that sendmail and the general issue of mail handling has > been and will continue to be a security issue. What does sendmail have to do with this? From Will's original post: >Exim version 3.12 #1 built 03-Jan-

booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread dman
I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but I am having lots of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using the idepci disks (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from the hard disk with no difficulty. The difficulty comes in booting a 2.4 kernel. I installed kernel-image-2.

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Baker
--- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but > I am having lots > of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using > the idepci disks > (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot from > the hard disk with > no difficulty. > > The difficulty co

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread Robert_L
On Friday 19 April 09:47, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:49AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > > 3. numlock on (how the heck do you do this for the gdm login screen ?) > > Ask google about numlockx. Simple little app that will turn numlock > on and off for you in X; just compile it

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread Robert_L
On Friday 19 April 04:01, craigw wrote: > On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:49AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > > I like and use gdm (kdm just won't work for some reason) but some things > > about kdm I miss. > > 1. Auto entry of selected user > > yes, that's a nice convenience. With gdm you can (if it's a

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David B Harris quotation: > > Actually, it's a very good spam filter. It, by default, adds headers to > the message (X-Yahoo-FilteredBulk or somesuch). I've received some > fourty thousand mails over my yahoo.ca account; some of them spam. I > have NEVER EVER gotten a false positive from Ya

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:07PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:19:11 -0400 > Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't honestly think that they filter out the spam sites to which > > they sell your information, do you? > > Actually, it's a very good spam filt

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. "ridiculous". > The > only thing a firewall is good for is to provide you with a false sense > of security. A firewall is a useful tool for securing a network. If you don't know enough abou

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread Addis Perez
On Thursday 18 April 2002 09:43 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Point the cursor at the first character within a link that has > some characters you want to cut-n-paste, press the left mouse > button and *try* to highlight the characters you want. YOU CAN'T > DO IT! Clicking *anywhere* within the link

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Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > > And what do you do when a security vulnerability arises in your firewall > implementation? The same thing you do when that happens with any other component of your network; fix it, have plans in place to recover from it, and have monitoring in place to detect

Autologin

2002-04-19 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I want to set up a really basic debian system wich has only needs for running X with a basic WM like twm. If i start the PC it should start debian auto log in start X and then Start the Citrix MetaFrame Linux Client. My question is: Is it possible to auto log in? If yes how? If no how could

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Re: Autologin

2002-04-19 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I want to set up a really basic debian system wich has only needs for > running X with a basic WM like twm. > > If i start the PC it should start debian auto log in start X and then > Start the Citrix MetaFrame Linux Clie

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:48, Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > > I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is > > > given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. > > > Just re

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed >> > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to >> > the pack

Re: booting problems - new machine, kernel 2.4

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:13:39AM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: | --- dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > I'm trying to set up a new machine for someone, but I am having | > lots of difficulty booting it. I installed potato using the | > idepci disks (kernel 2.2.19-idepci). That kernel can boot fr

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: | > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. | | "ridiculous". | | > The | > only thing a firewall is good for is to provide you with a false sense | > of security. | | A

strange mail

2002-04-19 Thread Gary Turner
I received the following, plus a duplicate (except for message IDs) 6 minutes later. Can anyone shed any light on where these come from, and why? This is everything, including the blank body. >Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from mta3.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta3-pr.rcsntx.swbell.net) > b

warnquota not doing anything

2002-04-19 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I installed quota on my potato box and did some testing. When I have user that is over their soft limit and then I run the warnquota commmand. Nothing happens.(just back to command prompt) I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. Any hints? thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

tcpdump: traffic connecting to another machine

2002-04-19 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'd like to run tcpdump on internal network traffice between our router and general workstations. My laptop, on which I'm running tcpdump, is connected to the same switch as the router. However I can only get traffic between my machine and the router using tcpdump. The switch is a managed switch.

Re: Autologin

2002-04-19 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > I want to set up a really basic debian system wich has only needs for running > X with a basic WM like twm. > If i start the PC it should start debian auto log in start X and then Start > the Citrix MetaFrame Linux Client. Hi

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Whysall
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:46, Gary Turner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > >> > debian packages that are not u

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > > > debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to > > >

Re: xdm/wdm/gdm/kdm/login.app etc.

2002-04-19 Thread craigw
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:41:34AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: > > > > > > you can also put all this in ~/.Xmodmap: > > > > keycode 90 = KP_0 KP_Insert > > keycode 87 = KP_1 KP_End > > keycode 88 = KP_2 KP_Down > > keycode 89 = KP_3 KP_Next > > keycode 83 = KP_4 KP_Left > > keycode 84 = KP_5 KP_B

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Matijs van Zuijlen
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > >> > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed > >> > debian packages t

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
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Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-19 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 03:23, Karsten M. Self wrote: Have you thought of the possibility of a dirty power supply? My friend was having a problem like this. Our university's power is dirty in the first place then he added some not to well conected fans inside his case to the problem. He started

Re: make-kpkg

2002-04-19 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 08:48, John Habermann wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 05:04, dave mallery wrote: > > > > > question: can i simply: dpkg -r kernel-image-2.4.18_custom1.0_i386.deb ?? > > > > > > it needs to be obliterated, since it can't use the monitor. will the > > above -r also re-arrange my

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > What we need to do is tell "find" to only find files that have > executable bits set, with the -perm switch - however, the following: > > find / -type f -atime +30 perm ugo+x | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq > > old.txt > > doesn't return anything. Can someone

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Whysall
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 17:46, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > > > What we need to do is tell "find" to only find files that have > > executable bits set, with the -perm switch - however, the following: > > > > find / -type f -atime +30 perm ugo+x | xargs dpkg -S |

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Hall Stevenson
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > > Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find > > > installed debian packages that are not used, based on atime > > > of files that belong to the packages. > > > > I think you're looking for popularity-contest

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:21:42 +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:46:30AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >> >> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: snip >> >> deborphan looks for files

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote: > > find / -type f -atime +30 -perm +111 | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq > > > old.txt > > Well, old.txt now contains the following: > > peter:~ $ more old.txt > fdflush: /bin/fdflush > > Hmm. I wonder if that hasn't taken it from one extreme to the other... Odd

Building Video CDs

2002-04-19 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I'm trying to create a Video CD from an mpg file. I've found vcdimager and had a look at the documentation but I didn't really understand it very well... Could someone please tell me what's the simplest way to create a VCD / SVCD from an mpg file? Many thanks in advance! best regards, Balazs

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Pollywog
On 2002.04.19 14:18 Hall Stevenson wrote: I believe 'deborphan' only looks for "dependant" type packages, i.e. if you try and install package "a", but it requires packages "b". Later, you remove package "a" but package "b" gets left. It's now likely unused. Running 'deborphan' *should* tell you

AV Vendor contact addresses (was Re: Antigen found HTML.MimeExploit (CA(Vet)) virus)

2002-04-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 18, 2002, ANTIGEN_OTCEXC01 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Antigen for Exchange found message.txt infected with HTML.MimeExploit > (CA(Vet)) virus. The following are some contact addresses for AV software/filtering vendors, suitable for an /etc/aliases list. I recommend following the lea

Re: Building Video CDs

2002-04-19 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Sorry, I've tried to add the mpg file the wrong way (with --add-file). But I've managed to create one CD afterall. A relate question though: Is there a utility that I can use to check whether the mpg is the correct format? Also when to use the VCD type and when the SVCD? Many thanks again! r

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread Gary Turner
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:15:40 +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: >On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:46, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:59:34 -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: >> >> >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: snip >> This non-hacker is >> thinking that a script t

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-19 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:31:05 + Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > network. I would like to test my 3 woody machines for possible root > kits. What is the best way of doing this? Should I check the md5sum of > ... > Also, is there any way of checking for a kernel module type

Re: kernel-headers-2.2.19pre17

2002-04-19 Thread James Michael DuPont
If it helps anyone, I have done the following : 1. got my CDs back :=) 2. installed the KERNEL SOURCE of 2.2.19pre17 apt-get kernel-source-2.2.19pre17 that gives me the headers as well!!! Feeling kinda silly! mike --- Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my system, > > apt-cache search

Re: check for root kit

2002-04-19 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:02:02 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Massey) wrote: > ... > $ apt-cache show chkrootkit > ... That's a scary tool, if I ever saw one. I have it running once a day, and it almost always reports a possible LKM "infection". Sometimes it detects 1 process hidden from ps, sometimes

Re: VNCserver goes into session not gdm

2002-04-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeremy Nickurak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020414 12:24]: > On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:57, hanasaki wrote: > > How do i get gdm to run on the vnc server when a client connects? It is > > just going inot the session > > It sounds to me like what you want to do is not have VNC start gdm, but > the other

Re: Finding unused packages

2002-04-19 Thread traxlend
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:15:40PM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote: > There's an obvious problem - it hits up every file, regardless. I > certainly haven't accessed a lot of the non-English localisation files > on my system in like forever, and old.txt is a resultant 700K in size. There's a localepurge

Re: tcpdump: traffic connecting to another machine

2002-04-19 Thread traxlend
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I'd like to run tcpdump on internal network traffice between our router > and general workstations. > > My laptop, on which I'm running tcpdump, is connected to the same switch > as the router. However I can only get traffic be

Re: Building Video CDs

2002-04-19 Thread traxlend
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: > Sorry, I've tried to add the mpg file the wrong way (with --add-file). > But I've managed to create one CD afterall. > > A relate question though: > Is there a utility that I can use to check whether the mpg is > the correct format?

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 09:10]: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > | begin Noah Meyerhans quotation: > | > HA! That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard on this list. > | > | "ridiculous". "pedantic". > | > | > The > | > only thing a firewall

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