Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-26 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:11:20AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Leo Spalteholz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Quoting Christoph Claus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Leo, > > > > > > > Is there a way to get this on a disk or something? I dont have any > > > > system up

OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open a link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked in the kde configurator thing and didn't see any sort of option for that. -jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

postgres: No pg_hba.conf entry for host

2002-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I get the following error message when trying to connect to postgres using tora: No pg_hba.conf entry for host... I think that the settings are ok since I can loging using psql: jojda:~> psql pokus -U erik -W Password: Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. here's my p

postgers: how to use both md5 and passwordless access

2002-09-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I would like to use both passwordless access to user's own db as debian default config allows: localall ident sameuse host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sameuse as well as being able to connect to other DBs us

Re: created problems uninstalling xdm

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Jim Hribar wrote: > I uninstalled xdm (apt-get remove xdm) and which in turn removed the > meta package x-window-system. Then I removed all instances of the xdm > directories (the uninstall said the directories weren't empty): > > > > /var/lib/xdm >

Re: .

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.0040 +0200]: > "flooding"? This is the only message I see from links.com.cn in my > debian-user folder (which, admittedly, only goes back 15 days). Have > there been more of these that I haven't seen? I've seen at least 10 I'd say, mostly

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.0940 +0200]: > not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open a > link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked in the kde > configurator thing and didn't see any sort of option for that. The s

Re: Remote package management?

2002-09-26 Thread Carl Johnson
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:11, Carl Johnson wrote: > > I want to set up a rescue/administration filesystem on an extra > > partition, but I would like to be able to install packages without > > rebooting into that filesystem. I already f

Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
please excuse the cross-post, i am trying to reach everyone ;^> i am repeatedly seeing the term "page fault" being used in Debian in the wrong way. A page fault, despite its name, has nothing to do with memory corruption or an invalid access. A page fault simply occurs when a memory access causes

Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Searching the archives of this list for "IPv6" I found I was not the only one with problems like "local domains always resolved through dialup interface", "unable to disable IPv6 for some reason", "DNS madness on Woody", and other problems with "local address lookup". With the help of the IPv

cvsweb access control

2002-09-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, Is there any way to configore cvsweb only allow the access from a specific IP? I've read /etc/cvsweb.conf but didn't find any useful infomation. Then I consult httpd.conf, but it seems apache can only limit the access by Directory, not by a specific file or cgi program. Idea? -- Pat

Re[4]: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-26 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > your question "Is apache any configuration to avoid symbolic link across > documentroot?" is not worded in a way that I can understand what your > really asking. try to re-phrase it. unless the above answers your > question of course :) > > nate OK. What

Re: Flyvideo TV card

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:53:18PM -0700, John Joe wrote: > This is xawtv-3.06, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.19) > visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=16 > x11: 800x600, 16 bit/pixel, 1600 byte/scanline, DGA, > VidMode > can't open /dev/video: No such device Does /dev/video exist? It can be

Re: hyperterminal

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:06:05AM +0800, david hong wrote: > For troubleshooting, can we > do a connection to linux server via serial port > and hyperterminal and monitor any console message?? Yes. Do a google search for console serial linux to find it. -- Baloo msg03714/pgp0.pgp Descr

Re: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:30:23PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > Now that apache has FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch options, > there's still some security issue. For example, someone cp /etc/passwd > to his home directory(/home/foo/passwd), create a symbolic link from > /home/foo/passwd t

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Michael Brade
On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:20, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.0940 +0200]: > > not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail open > > a link in an email in mozilla instead of konqueror? I have looked in the > > kde con

Kernel panic

2002-09-26 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I patched some files and then made the kernel "2.4.19-patched" with the following commands: fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -patched kernel_image and then installed the kernel with : dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.19-patched_10.00.Custom_i386.deb Then I modified the /etc/lilo/conf When i

mutt/ssmtp - Where are my sent mails?

2002-09-26 Thread
Hi! I'm close to get my mutt/ssmtp to work. Receiving Mails works fine. Sending and replying mails seem to work (no error message) but they never reach the recipient. How can I find out where they are (at mutt, ssmtp or myISP)? TIA Dieter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Newbie question

2002-09-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
If you are loging in through gnome desktop manager (gdm), it will not let you in as root. If this is the case (wanting to use graphical interface and being root), I would suggest using kdm (same as gde, but from kde). To do so, "dpkg-reconfigure kde" will give you the chance of selecting your d

Re: Newbie question

2002-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 07:51:04AM +0200, Koen Niehof wrote: > Hi all, How do I get to the screen where I can login as root? Now I > get the graphical login screen and I can't login as root. Never log in as root (or on a Windows box, as Administrator, similarly, don't create new administrator a

Changing a .deb name consistently. Easier to build from source?

2002-09-26 Thread shaulka
How can I change a deb name in a consistent manner without building it from source? Will it be easier then building it from source? For example, can I extract it with dpkg-deb, modify a few files and repackage it? The problem I have at hands is that I have a kernel image kernel-image-2.4.19-

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-26 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. Reading this thread I decided to give a try to CUPS and I've managed to configure my printer (HP Deskjet 722C connected to a Win2K PC on LAN). Anyway, I'm not able to print because I need to specify the Username and Password, but I can't find any way of doing this. Could anyone pleas

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:50, martin f krafft wrote: > i am repeatedly seeing the term "page fault" being used in Debian in > the wrong way. (examples?) > A page fault, despite its name, has nothing to do with > memory corruption or an invalid access. It has quite a bit to do with an invalid ac

disable Screen saver

2002-09-26 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
I am running Debian unstable. The UI is handled by a mix of Gnome 1.4 and wmaker. My screen gets black if I don't touch the mouse for a while. This prevents me from looking at DVDs on my laptop. I tried to find a screen saver installed on my machine but couldn't find any. Some of the things I t

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1322 +0200]: > > i am repeatedly seeing the term "page fault" being used in Debian in > > the wrong way. > > (examples?) libsigsegv-dev's description various posts to the debian-* lists > It has quite a bit to do with an invalid acc

RE: disable Screen saver

2002-09-26 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
xset s off should do If you want a screen saver, try xscreensaver (also, on console, a screen blocker can be useful : lockvc) Vincent > -Original Message- > From: Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday 26 September 2002 13:35 > To: Debian-User > Subject:

Re: workstations syslogging to server

2002-09-26 Thread D. J. Bolderman
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, nate wrote: > > I'm trying to setup my debian workstations to redirect all their > > logs to my server. My server is running logcheck so it would be nice > > if I would get an e-mail with all "strange" things that happen on my > > workstations. > > I know i must configure th

X popup client sought

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for a configurable amount of time before being destroyed again. rather than using the X protocol, xme

Re: Emergency - partition table gone

2002-09-26 Thread R. Bradley Tilley
> Well all the rescue disks didn't help any. Gpart scanned for 4 hours > and spit out a bunch of read errors along the way then came up with no > partitions at all. Partition Magic was confused, same with Spin Rite. > And so I checked it with the ibm drive fitness test and guess what? Its > co

Re: Kernel panic

2002-09-26 Thread shaulka
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:06:11PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I patched some files and then made the kernel "2.4.19-patched" with the > following commands: > > fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -patched kernel_image > > > and then installed the kernel with : > dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.19

Thank-You Steve Hunger for your Book!

2002-09-26 Thread infotechsys
Hi, After many years of procrastinating on installing Debian, I finally took the time to install it. I want to thank Steve for wrriting the book "Debian GNU/Linux Bible".I used the cd that came with the book. Now I need a little help. I'm trying to get GNOME up and running.When I type the command

Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Anand Parikh
Hi All, I am trying to set up LILO to boot Win98. I have the following setup: I have installed Linux on one HD (two partitions with Linux on 2nd part.), Win98 on a second HD (one partition). I can boot up on both OS with one of the HD connected as active. Next I set up the Linux HD as A (active)

esd & laptop sound

2002-09-26 Thread Mark T. Valites
On both my tibook & my ultra 5, I have to manually start enlightenment sound daemon (esd). I tried setting auto_spawn=1 in /etc/esound/esd.conf, but it didn't seem to take care of automagically starting it. I could call it from my .xession, but I don't want it to start when using a WM other than

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-26 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! Thanks to all who responded to my question(s)! It's working now. I use the suggestion made by Miquel, as shown below, though I will be happy to try the others as well. I've got some scripting tricks to play with now :-) (The reason I was using this method is that it integrates well in my pre

Re: mutt/ssmtp - Where are my sent mails?

2002-09-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi! > > I'm close to get my mutt/ssmtp to work. > Receiving Mails works fine. > > Sending and replying mails seem to work (no error message) but they never reach the >recipient. > > How can I find out where they are (at mutt, ssmtp or myIS

Re: postgres: No pg_hba.conf entry for host

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:51, Erik Steffl wrote: >I get the following error message when trying to connect to postgres > using tora: > > No pg_hba.conf entry for host... > >I think that the settings are ok since I can loging using psql: > > jojda:~> psql pokus -U erik -W This is using

tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
i've looked online and found nothing, and i don't have NNTP access, so this has to go to debian once again. how can i make mozilla display all new pages as tabs. when a webpage has , then clicking on that link creates a new window. i would like to do that with a tab. in fact, i want to make mozill

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Massey
* Anand Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 22:49]: > Next I set up the Linux HD as A (active) and Win98 HD as B (standby). > I can boot up with Linux, but with Win98 the system just hangs, no error > messages. How can I fix this problem? I think you'll find that Windows needs to be on the fir

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Ernst-Magne
Hi It all looks ok, but I don't know what you need "tabel=/dev/hdb" for in your win part of lilo. I have several systems with dualboot, but never used that one before, never seen it either:) Try to remove it, then run "lilo" and try boot up in windoze. /ernst On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Anand Parikh

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread ernst
Hi I really don't think you'll need windoze on hda1, well...I know you don't. I have done several tests and there is just the same where you put windoze, if the partition is first, middle or last. If it's primary or secondary doesn't matter either. But you are right in a way, it's most common t

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:15:48PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > this has to go to debian once again. how can i make mozilla display > all new pages as tabs. when a webpage has , I think, it doesn't work. Once there was a patch in mozilla (Debian) but it had bad side effects, so it was rem

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Massey
* ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 23:25]: > I really don't think you'll need windoze on hda1, well...I know you don't. Interesting. I've never had Windows 95/98 run happily from anywhere but the first primary partition. Not that I've particularly tried; always seemed just easier to put it t

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Anand Parikh wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to set up LILO to boot Win98. I have the following setup: > I have installed Linux on one HD (two partitions with Linux on 2nd part.), > Win98 on a second HD (one partition). I can boot up on both OS with one of the > HD connected as active. > Next I

Centralized user-database: LDAP vs. KerberosV5 vs. AFS

2002-09-26 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I try to evaluate wich is THE user database and login system. I read many docs and tried it for myself. I ask here for your thoughts about that. First some of mine: LDAP: This is deffinitly a cool method. Its very simple and very secure due its high SSL encryption. And through the possibil

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 26 September 2002, 03:15 PM +0200): > i've looked online and found nothing, and i don't have NNTP access, so > this has to go to debian once again. how can i make mozilla display > all new pages as tabs. when a webpage has , > then clickin

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:15:48 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've looked online and found nothing, and i don't have NNTP access, so > this has to go to debian once again. how can i make mozilla display > all new pages as tabs. when a webpage has , > then clicking on that link c

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
> To be honest, I didn't know the answer at first sight, but a look at the > code did it: you have to change the _global_ Browser in KControl (or > Konqueror itself), section "File Associations". I think it was under File > Manager until KDE 3.0. There, go to text/html, press Add, choose Mozilla >

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Pepas
On Thursday 26 September 2002 04:31, Michael Brade wrote: > On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:20, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.0940 +0200]: > > > not really a debian question, but does anyone know how to make kmail > > > open a link in an email

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread DvB
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've looked online and found nothing, and i don't have NNTP access, so > this has to go to debian once again. Have you tried groups.google.com? how can i make mozilla display > all new pages as tabs. when a webpage has , > then clicking on that lin

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Anand Parikh
I tried it with removing "table" but its the same problem with windoze. If I want to try with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB, how do I put LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda? What should boot point to in that case? BTW, it is table and not "tabel" in the file, otherwise I would have got errors when I ra

w e i r d f o n t b e h a v i o r in multi-gnome-terminal

2002-09-26 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi, I have some weird font behavior in multi-gnome-terminal (from testing). If i choose any other font than: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 (if I use for example the M$-font arial) the text I type on the command line displays with a lot of space between characters, li

rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi, I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd will not run. It exits without an error message, but reports Sep 26 15:33:48 rp

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Tom Massey
* Anand Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-27 00:06]: > > I tried it with removing "table" but its the same problem with windoze. > If I want to try with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB, how do I put LILO > in the MBR of /dev/hda? > What should boot point to in that case? I think /etc/lilo.conf s

Re: postgers: how to use both md5 and passwordless access

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:59, Erik Steffl wrote: >I would like to use both passwordless access to user's own db as > debian default config allows: > > localall ident sameuse > host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sa

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Gottfried Szing
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 15:14, Tom Massey wrote: > * Anand Parikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 22:49]: > > Next I set up the Linux HD as A (active) and Win98 HD as B (standby). > > I can boot up with Linux, but with Win98 the system just hangs, no error > > messages. How can I fix this problem? >

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1556 +0200]: > you can't understand why one would wish to use mozilla instead of konqueror? noo. don't pose that question to Michael. he's a KDE evangelist and you know how that goes; the problems get eclipsed by good lucks and the good

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1550 +0200]: > It takes a little bit of user training, but if you configure Mozilla to > open middle clicked links in a new tab "Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator > -> Tabbed Browsing", then you can simply start middle-clicking your links

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1552 +0200]: > Another thing you might try... I've been using Galeon for quite some > time now, and this IS an option in Galeon. It uses the Gecko engine, > so it renders just like Mozilla. However, if you're also using > Mozilla

Re: CUPS configuration

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:44:46PM +0200, Ronald Castillo wrote: > Hello.. > > Reading this thread I decided to give a try to CUPS and I've managed to > configure my printer (HP Deskjet 722C connected to a Win2K PC on LAN). > Anyway, I'm not able to print because I need to specify the Username

Re: pcmcia problem (3Com 3c575)

2002-09-26 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > Try modprobe 3c59x > > From the kernel source help line: > > CONFIG_VORTEX: > > This option enables driver support for a large number of 10mbps and > 10/100mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: > > "Vortex"(Fast

Re: using adduser script & ldap

2002-09-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:52:14PM +0200, Thorsten Klein wrote: | hi, | | i'd like to know if it's possible to use the adduser script with a | ldap-server on woody. | | i'd googled for a while and can't find anything usefull on that topic. Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldap

Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Dresser
Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if I start faxing dumb spammers like the one that just hit debian-bugs? I faxed him a nice STOP SPAMMING YOU STUPID SPAMMER. I should have done it white text on black background though. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: created problems uninstalling xdm

2002-09-26 Thread Torsten Wolny
Hello, Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 10:10 schrieb Andy Saxena: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Jim Hribar wrote: > > I uninstalled xdm (apt-get remove xdm) and which in turn ^ better: apt-get --purge remove xdm. This will

Debian + Amavis + Postfix

2002-09-26 Thread Irving Carrion
Greetings! I'm trying to install Amavis + uvscan on my debian system. We currently have postfix as an MTA. I followed the following instructions to get this configured. //I GRABED THESE FROM THE README.POSTFIX THAT COMES WITH AMAVIS Configuring postfix itself is very simple: * add to /etc/p

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread burningclown
if you could contrive to send him/her an 'infinite fax' (done on a paper fax machine by taping multiple copies into a loop) i for one would be forever in your debt. aleph null-ly glenn On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: > Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if

Re: Debian + Amavis + Postfix

2002-09-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:30:30AM -0400, Irving Carrion wrote: > Sep 25 20:07:34 mail amavis[9454]: virus_scan FAILED, retry: All virus > scanners failed! at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 982. > Sep 25 20:07:34 mail amavis[9454]: mail processing failed, > RETRY/TEMPFAIL Hm, did you edit /etc/amavi

kernel panic on build of 2.4.18

2002-09-26 Thread bob parker
Hi debian-users, I'm running Woody with the latest online updates. I've just compiled the 2.4.18 kernel using the Debian standard method from 7.1.1 of the Debian Reference. I've configured in scsi cdrom/burner support, and usb support. The make line was: make-kpkg --append_to_version --initrd \

Re: OT: how to make kmail open links in mozilla

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1645 +0200]: > and you know how that goes; the problems get eclipsed by good lucks s/lucks/looks/ props to the german-english bililgual phoneticists. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto:

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:27, Mike Dresser wrote: > Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if I start > faxing dumb spammers like the one that just hit debian-bugs? > > I faxed him a nice STOP SPAMMING YOU STUPID SPAMMER. > > I should have done it white text on black ba

Re: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread Anand Parikh
I understand the lilo.conf file you suggested. Only problem is that when I edit the file with Linux on HDA, I have to uncomment the Win98 part, otherwise I get errors running "lilo". BTW, I have lba32. On booting up with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB it goes to Win98 without any choice. If I dis

NIS setup problems

2002-09-26 Thread D. J. Bolderman
Hi Guys, I' setting up NIS on my server (unstable). This machine has 2 interfaces: eth0 (10.0.0.150) which is connected the internet, and eth1 (192.168.1.1), connected to my internal network. I followed the Debian-NIS doc, which is in /usr/share/doc/nis/ Now, when I start NIS, I see that ypbin

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > if you could contrive to send him/her an 'infinite fax' (done on a paper fax > machine by taping multiple copies into a loop) i for one would be forever in > your debt. > > aleph null-ly I'd be forever in debt to the phone company for the long dis

RE: Debian + Amavis + Postfix

2002-09-26 Thread Irving Carrion
Yes I did. The only change I made was the following # NAI AntiVirus (uvscan) $uvscan = "/usr/local/uvscan/uvscan"; -Original Message- From: Stephan Seitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian + Amavis + Postfix

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Just remember that fax spamming is illegal EVERYWHERE and you are easily > traced. Being sued by a spammer would suck. I hate to use a spammer's arguments, but I'm not actually SPAMMING, per say.. Just harassment(which is illegal as you say) So

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:14:27AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... > With the help of the IPv6 developer list I finally found the real > solution: Woody versions of some Debian packages, like telnet, > and, it seems, exim, *require* IPv6 addresses for your local > machines (including local

RE: Debian + Amavis + Postfix

2002-09-26 Thread Irving Carrion
The following was stated in the instructions * the port number for the localhost:port transport is either 10025 (default), or whatever was configured through "--with-smtp-port". But I have the following in my log Sep 25 20:07:34 mail postfix/smtpd[10300]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.1

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:56, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Just remember that fax spamming is illegal EVERYWHERE and you are easily > > traced. Being sued by a spammer would suck. > > I hate to use a spammer's arguments, but I'm not actually SPA

"hdparm" and Software RAID

2002-09-26 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hi, Are there any problems running something like: /sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hdX when /dev/hdX is part of a running software RAID? If there are problems, how do people tune their IDE hard drives that are part of software RAID drives? Any insight you can provide would be appreciated.

cgi's don't work in vhost config with apache

2002-09-26 Thread Justin Ryan
Heya all.. Sorry for the cross-post but it seemed reasonably applicable to debian-user and debian-isp.. I'm trying a simple "Hello Web" script in python and (to prove that it isn't python related) as a simple shell script. Both work on my Debian/sid workstation, which has a default apache confi

Re: cgi's don't work in vhost config with apache

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel K. Gebhart
Justin Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:00:38AM -0500: > I first stuck the script(s) in /usr/lib/cg-bin without modifying apache > configuration. I tried adding the ScriptAlias line and > entry from apache's global config to the - no cigar. I've done it this way:

RE: G550 / XFree86

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
I had the same problem. I used the drivers from the matrox site (mgadrivers-2.0.tgz) http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/files/lnx_200.cfm Then disable framebuffers and make sure you don't have a duplicate mouse entry in XF86Config-4: Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Video

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-25 11:01:35 -0700]: > /usr/bin/find $BACKUP_DIR/arc -type f -maxdepth 1 -name \*.arc \ > -mtime +30 -exec rm \{\} \; A very, very small point with your good note. I strongly advise avoiding the hard code of the /usr/bin/find path. This has always come b

nvidia and X with 2.4.19

2002-09-26 Thread Jack Pistachio
I just recently tried to get XFree86 4.1 working with the newest nVidia drivers (1.0-3123). I'm running a custom 2.4.19 kernel and compiled the nVidia kernel drivers against that. Seemed to work fine and the NVdriver modules installed ok (after some troubleshooting since I keep my kernel source

Help mailserver used to mirror spamming !!!

2002-09-26 Thread Ricardo Fitzgerald
Hi to all, Recently I had a very bad news one of my clients mail server was blocked due to spamming !!! Well, the thing is they are not spamming at all, but their ip was used by some unscrupulous spammer, now I have the task to write some security to prevent that but I don't know much about the s

many processes uninterruptibly sleeping

2002-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
what could be the problem with a system that regularly puts quite a number of processes into "uninterruptible sleep" (according to top) for some minutes, and then releases them after a that (long) while? for instance, logging in to courierpop3d through port 110 allows me to enter user and password

Re: Stream audio file with netscape/mozilla?

2002-09-26 Thread Kendall Shaw
Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Kendall" == Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Kendall> With netscape and mozilla in linux, the entire file is > Kendall> downloaded, then it launches the player. Is there a way to > Kendall> stream audio files from a web page

Re: nvidia and X with 2.4.19

2002-09-26 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Why install the RPM package for the nVidia GLX driver and not get the nvidia-glx-src package and build it along with the nvidia-kernel-src package for the kernel patch... That is what I have working here on my AMD 1Ghz Athalon at work with a nVidia GeForce2 MX card... I haven't u

Re: Help mailserver used to mirror spamming !!!

2002-09-26 Thread nate
Ricardo Fitzgerald said: > Hi to all, > > Recently I had a very bad news one of my clients mail server was blocked > due to spamming !!! Well, the thing is they are not spamming at all, but > their ip was used by some unscrupulous spammer, now I have the task to > write some security to prevent th

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-26 Thread Q. Gong
I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed steps. Good luck, Qian On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Sept

Re: 'hdparm' and Software RAID

2002-09-26 Thread nate
Robert James Kaes said: > Hi, > Are there any problems running something like: > > /sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hdX > > when /dev/hdX is part of a running software RAID? If there are problems, > how do people tune their IDE hard drives that are part of software RAID > drives? there should be

Re: NIS setup problems

2002-09-26 Thread nate
D. J. Bolderman said: > Hi Guys, > Now, when I start NIS, I see that ypbind tries to bind to eth0, but I > want it to bind to eth1. I believe all RPC services bind to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), and there is no way to change this, from what I've read it would require a ton of code to be changed. I

RE: Using LILO to boot Linux/Win98

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
If Win98 is on hda and Linux on hdb and you can successfully boot into Win98, you are halfway there. Now boot from a rescue disk and run lilo with boot=/dev/hda as below. David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net > -Original Message- > From: Anand Parikh [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Help mailserver used to mirror spamming !!!

2002-09-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ricardo Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 09:56]: > Hi to all, > > Recently I had a very bad news one of my clients mail server was blocked due > to spamming !!! Well, the thing is they are not spamming at all, but their > ip was used by some unscrupulous spammer, now I have the task to wr

GNOME & startx

2002-09-26 Thread David Sanders
When I type "startx", I get KDE. How do I change it to get GNOME? David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandersweb.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpc.statd won't run when rootfs mounted readonly

2002-09-26 Thread nate
Heinrich Rebehn said: > Hi, > > I have a problem with rpc.statd. We run our linux machines as diskless > clients, they mount their root fs via nfs from a server. For security > reasons i would like to export the root fs readonly. However, rpc.statd > will not run. It exits without an error message

Re: workstations syslogging to server

2002-09-26 Thread nate
D. J. Bolderman said: ystem and disabling such programs manually. > > Thanks for sharing your config file Nate. One thing I don't understand > is: is this the config file from your server or your workstations? > > Sorry, but I'm just a beginner with syslog-ng you know :) hehe no prob :) that is

Re: Re[4]: apache FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch question

2002-09-26 Thread nate
Patrick Hsieh said: > OK. What I mean is, since I have to turn on FollowSymLinks. I wish apache > only follow the symblic links under /var/www > Sorry for the poor explaination. no problem. now I know exactly what you want and its easy to do, in access.conf (or httpd.conf whatever you want to u

Re: OT: Alternatives to ls for sorting files by modification time

2002-09-26 Thread Jeff Cours
Adrian von Bidder wrote: > Thanks a lot. Will try. I don't speak perl fluently, that's why I looked > for a shell script - but it gets the job done, and perl is installed by > default, so it doesn't matter. Glad to help! One thing to be aware of is that the script is currently set up to use file

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