Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:15:42AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: > > > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > Putting ~/bin first in your $PATH is a security risk. Conside

Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-28 Thread Russell
Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:15:42AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:55:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > I'm using bash. "echo $PATH" reports: > > > > > > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > > > Putting ~/bin first in you

Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Russell said... > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > I think a more sensible rule is to only put directories in $PATH that > > are at least as trusted as the relevant account. Thus, /usr/bin and so > > on are always fine, ~/bin is only fine for the owning user, and . is > > never a good

Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 28 September 2002 00:44, Russell wrote: > > Why is ./ in the path bad? If someone hacked in, couldn't they > set the path to anything they wanted? mostly because you just never know what you will find in '.'. Being forced to type ./foo helps you be aware of where you are and what yo

Re: Dangerous to have ~/bin first in $PATH [was Re: Odd Path issue]

2002-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 05:44:58PM +1000, Russell wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > I think a more sensible rule is to only put directories in $PATH that > > are at least as trusted as the relevant account. Thus, /usr/bin and so > > on are always fine, ~/bin is only fine for the owning user, and .

Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread Daniel Fabian
Hi List, I'm trying to install debian on an IPC laptop (you probably won't know IPC, as it's a small Austrian company assembling lapdogs) after I finally downloaded the first 4 iso images (woody 3.0r0). However unfortunatly, I don't seem to get very far. I boot from the first cd and choose to boo

Re: SuSE vs. Debian ???

2002-09-28 Thread Gottfried Szing
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:48:23PM +, Lourens Steenkamp wrote: > Why am I learning Debian with a view to switching?? > I am truly tired of RPM based systems ... yep i have started to use linux with suse (the first german distribution) long time ago. than i have changed to redhat. and after

Re: Newbie question

2002-09-28 Thread Peter Whysall
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > When you use su do it as 'su - root' and you will actually be root. 'su root' > just gives you some of root's privileges. Not so. When you "su", you're root - but with the previous user's environment. When you "su -" you're root, with root's login environment. R

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

2002-09-28 Thread Oleg
On Saturday 28 September 2002 01:46 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Friday 27 September 2002 22:08, Oleg wrote: > > On Friday 27 September 2002 11:40 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > On Friday 27 September 2002 17:57, Oleg wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Are there any compatible debs for

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 28 September 2002 6:38 am, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel > > has created an ini

Re: X popup client sought

2002-09-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.2356 +0200]: > Of course, without some basic access control any random person could > just start spraying UDP datagrams all over the place and annoy everybody > with xmessage windows, but one problem at a time I suppose the > magni

Re: Lindows

2002-09-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marvin J. Kosmal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.27.0525 +0200]: > Anyone useing Lindows.80(( Sort of. Why? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck an avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on

Re: Making an audio CD from mp3 and wav files

2002-09-28 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:06:20 -0500 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:41:58PM -0300, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > > The only thing that worked for me for burning audio cd's on the fly > > from mp.3's was k3b. > > Just curious, is there a Debian package for th

Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default

2002-09-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.27.0942 +0200]: > Is ctrl+left-click acceptable? Not really. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck you work very hard. don't try to think as well. msg

Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server

2002-09-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.27.1618 +0200]: > How tight is the firewalling/routing setup at this school? If it > isn't too closed, couldn't you (martin) run squid on one of your > publicly accessible machines and have your brother and friends just > use that ins

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-28 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! Are the devices /dev/amixer0, /dev/adsp0 etc. there? If not, run /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/examples/snddevices Regards, Stephan On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:31:23 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote: > sorry. here goes: > > root@homer:/etc/alsa/modutils# ls -l /dev/mixer0 /dev/dsp0

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 23:12:37 -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > Install tetex-extra, I think. Yes. See #143751, "tetex-bin: PDF generation broken when tetex-extra isn't installed". Ray -

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Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Hanasaki, > I would not assume that the settings are the same. > > Run 'make menuconfig' and check > > Be sure of the following are compiled into the kernel: > ext2, ext3, reiserfs > ide & scsi support for your ide/scsi chips/boards Well, as I am trying this for three weeks now a

exim: prohibition_message

2002-09-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Is it possible to change the message recieved from an RBL bounce from something like "550 User unknown" to something more like "554 F**k off, spammer!" and include the RBL explaination below like it does otherwise? -- Baloo msg04162/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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Kazaa and sid

2002-09-28 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Hello everyone :) I had try the kazaa for linux, unfortunally when i launch it, it say me a disgusting 'version not suported', I run a sid debian with a 2.4.18 kernel. Some idea ??? Thanx for answers :) Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On 28 Sep 2002 15:43:48 +0200 Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Hanasaki, > > > I would not assume that the settings are the same. > > > > Run 'make menuconfig' and check > > > > Be sure of the following are compiled into the kernel: > > ext2, ext3, reiserfs > > ide & scsi s

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 14:00, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On 28 Sep 2002 15:43:48 +0200 > Did you ever try the old fashioned way? > > cd /usr/src/linux-x.x.x > make menuconfig > make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install > mv /boot/kernelimage /boot/kernelimage.orig > cp /usr/src/linux-x.x

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
Which one is "kernelimage"? I found one called bzImage, size ~500K. should I copy it to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18? on my system /vmlinuz points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 and /vmlinuz is configured in lilo.conf. Mariano On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:24, Mariano Kamp wrote: > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 14:00, Klau

Re: Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread David Mccowan
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 10:46:47 +0200 "Daniel Fabian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: did you look at this site which covers installing linux on IPC laptops http://www.linux-laptop.net/ipc.html > Hi List, > > I'm trying to install debian on an IPC laptop (you probably won't know > IPC, as it's a smal

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
If the below describe assumption was true then it didn't work out. I have the same problem. Mariano On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:33, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Which one is "kernelimage"? I found one called bzImage, size ~500K. > should I copy it to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18? on my system /vmlinuz points > to

Re: Tex to PDF conversion trouble (pdflatex)

2002-09-28 Thread David P James
Alan Shutko was roused into action on 09/27/02 23:12 and wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>In case this matters, tetex-bin and tetex-base are installed. > > > Install tetex-extra, I think. > Yep, that seems to have done the trick, sort of. Lyx is still not converting

Re: Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Daniel Fabian [Sat, Sep 28 2002, 10:46:47AM]: > I'm trying to install debian on an IPC laptop (you probably won't know IPC, > as it's a small Austrian company assembling lapdogs) after I finally Chip hardware, potentialy broken BIOS implementations with workarounds in Windows drivers

System stalls on deconfiguring network interfaces

2002-09-28 Thread D. J. Bolderman
Hi guys, Since i've setup NIS/NFS, my workstation stalls when shutting down. The message I get is: "Deconfiguring network interfaces: Failed to connect to locahost:bootpc. Connection timeout" Has this something todo with nis/nfs ? Thanks -- D.J. Bolderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg04172/pgp

Re: procmail and uw-imapd (locking!)

2002-09-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:18, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:08:44AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > I'm using uw-imapd, and have some procmail filters set up. While > > accessing my mailbox (from evolution, btw, but I don't think it > > matters), it occurs relatively of

AW: Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread Daniel Fabian
> did you look at this site which covers installing linux on IPC laptops > > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ipc.html It's probably the SIS 630 graphics adapter. I had problems with it installing SuSE 7.2 too. Redhat worked without problems. Does debian have a graphical installation? Is there a way t

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On 28 Sep 2002 16:33:41 +0200 Mariano Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which one is "kernelimage"? I found one called bzImage, size ~500K. > should I copy it to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18? on my system /vmlinuz points > to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 and /vmlinuz is configured in lilo.conf. > > Mariano Tha

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andy" == Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> I don't know jack about LVM, but from reading other posts Andy> and docs it seems that having the root partition on a Andy> filesystem that is loaded as a module is generally a bad Andy> idea. It makes perfect sense to

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> The issue that concerns me with LVS is is that it has a Alan> command to create an initrd image for booting. I suspect Alan> that it is creating something that loads the lvm modules in Alan> the kernel, but the documen

Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-28 Thread Robert Ian Smit
I know that some programs react differently depending on how they are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program know that it was started by using a symlink? For instance when I create a vi symlink to vim, will vim start up normally or will it mimick vi? If so, can I change

Re: Making an audio CD from mp3 and wav files

2002-09-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of Preben Randhol told: > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/09/2002 (00:37) : > > I'm having trouble finding a converter to make wav files from my ogg > > and mp3 files. Can someone point me at an encoder? > > Get gnometoaster the it is only drag-n-d

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
apt-get kernel-package read the readme in /usr/share/docs/kernel-package follow the instructions Mariano Kamp wrote: > If the below describe assumption was true then it didn't work out. I > have the same problem. > > Mariano > > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:33, Mariano Kamp wrote: > >>Which one is

Re: Still getting kernel panic when compiling my own kernel

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
That is what I did all the time. This thread was about how to do it a different way. Anyhow it seems to work now. Still I've some problems, but need to dig into that. At least I am able to boot now and I am not sure what I did wrong before. I ***guess*** is was something about dpkg -i and my assum

Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread bob parker
I am using Debian 3.0.0. I installed it with a 2.2.20 kernel which did not have scsi support. I later installed the 2.4.18 kernel and got support for my scsi cd burner but I have lost ability to read my ide cdrom. Here is my fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #

[SOLVED] Re: gtk2 gtk-demo Couldn't Load font Sans 10 falling back

2002-09-28 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Hubert, I don't have a clue what this whole mapping thing was about (and honestly I don't care too much ;-), but now gtk-demo is working. Now I get "libXm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" when I try to run eclipse, but I will try to dig something up myself fir

Re: Kazaa and sid

2002-09-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:03:03 +0200 Pierre Dupuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone :) > > I had try the kazaa for linux, unfortunally when i launch it, it say > me a disgusting 'version not suported', I run a sid debian with a > 2.4.18 kernel. > > Some idea ??? > > Thanx for answers

Re: Kazaa and sid

2002-09-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 02:03:03PM +0200, Pierre Dupuis wrote: > I had try the kazaa for linux, unfortunally when i launch it, it say me > a disgusting 'version not suported', I run a sid debian with a 2.4.18 > kernel. > > Some idea ??? Run gtk-gnutella instead. -- Baloo msg04185/pgp0.

RE: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread Michael Olds
Hey Bob, a Re: Bob? I just went through this recently, so I hope I remember this correctly: the device you want to operate as a CDROM needs to point to the SCSI device. In /dev/ make /dev/CDROM a symlink to scd0 -Original Message- From: bob parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Satu

Re: Symlink clarification needed (vi -> vim)

2002-09-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:56:51PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > I know that some programs react differently depending on how they > are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program > know that it was started by using a symlink? > > For instance when I create a vi symlink to

latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

2002-09-28 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I an using sarge and I upgraded yesterday. In xemacs latex2e Interactive works, but latex2e does not. So I linked, in /usr/bin/ latex2e to tex, and copied /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt to latex2e.fmt, ran texconfig but when I click on latex2e in xemacs, it cannot find latex2e.f

Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:59, you wrote: > Hey Bob, a Re: Bob? > > I just went through this recently, so I hope I remember this correctly: the > device you want to operate as a CDROM needs to point to the SCSI device. > > In /dev/ > make /dev/CDROM a symlink to scd0 > It already is indirectly, ie /de

Re: help compiling everybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody

2002-09-28 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > apt-get install libgtk-dev libglib-dev > > You probably have the runtime libraries but not the development > packages. I could be wrong (can't tell exactly in your case) but this > is the most common problem. hehe. I've made that mistake and learne

Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 the mental interface of bob parker told: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:59, you wrote: > > Hey Bob, a Re: Bob? > > > > I just went through this recently, so I hope I remember this correctly: the > > device you want to operate as a CDROM needs to point to the SCSI device. > > > > In

RE: created problems uninstalling xdm

2002-09-28 Thread Jim Hribar
Woohoo! Things did not work *exactly* as you suggested, but I fixed things by doing: apt-get --purge remove xdm apt-get install xdm Thanks, Jim -Original Message- From: Torsten Wolny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread Michael Olds
Bob, Sorry, I think I misunderstood your situation. You have a CDROM and a CDRW. Your CDRW is actually a real SCSI device? I was thinking it was scsi emulation. If I understand this now, the ide CDROM should NOT be being pointed to the scd0 or anything else but itself. (You may actually have impl

Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, bob parker wrote: > I am using Debian 3.0.0. > I installed it with a 2.2.20 kernel which did not have scsi support. > I later installed the 2.4.18 kernel and got support for my scsi cd burner but > I have lost ability to read my ide cdrom. > > Here is my fstab > # /etc/fst

Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:35, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, bob parker wrote: > > I am using Debian 3.0.0. > > I installed it with a 2.2.20 kernel which did not have scsi support. > > I later installed the 2.4.18 kernel and got support for my scsi cd burner > > but I have lost ability

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-28 Thread Martin A. Hansen
i did run snddevices: root@homer:/home/maasha# ll /dev/amixer0 /dev/adsp0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 12 18 sep 20:34 /dev/adsp0 crw-rw1 root audio 14, 11 18 sep 20:34 /dev/amixer0 martin > Hi! > > Are the devices /dev/amixer0, /dev/adsp0 etc. there? If not, run >

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:06:27 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen) wrote: > i did run snddevices: But as Steven Yap indicated: | xamixer2 uses the 0.4 ALSA API. If your alsa version is 0.9, that | would explain why xamixer failed. You appear to be using the 0.9 alsa drivers. Time to use

Help getting Plip connection working

2002-09-28 Thread fbrian
I am running kernel 2.4.18 on both boxxes. Both running debian 3.0 Unable to get plip to work??? Box 1 a.)contents of /etc/modutils/parport === options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 options plip parport=0 === b.)output of #lsmod | grep

Re: alsa help needed desperately!

2002-09-28 Thread Martin A. Hansen
ok, i guess i should not use xamixer2 then. (i never have before, but im desperate). anyway you are telling me that xamixer fails of natural causes, so back to the drawing table ... by the way. user is added to group audio: root@homer:/etc# grep audio group audio:x:29:maasha but again, as im

Re: Debian 3.0r0 installation Problems

2002-09-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:03:28PM +0200, Daniel Fabian wrote: > > did you look at this site which covers installing linux on IPC laptops > > > > http://www.linux-laptop.net/ipc.html > > It's probably the SIS 630 graphics adapter. I had problems with it > installing SuSE 7.2 too. Redhat worked wi

Apt's sources.list has line-length limit 299

2002-09-28 Thread Jameson C. Burt
"apt-get update" hangs with no response when I add a line anywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list that is greater than 299 characters. Specifically, I added the following 308-character commented line to aid my choice of Debian sites [the line-continuation characters were not originally present and

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-28 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:22:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm down to the point where I rarely get spam addressed to me, it's > usually sent to debian-user, and on a bad day I get 5. > Only 5 a day? Is that before or after filtering the email? I have hotmail accounts that I download w

Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread j y
I have been trying to do scsi-ide emulation w/o success. I am actually running SusSE 7.3 I have wanted to load Debian but I can even get my cdrom or cdrw recognized anymore. I'm stuck, I have read the pages on emulation and edited fstab & mtab but I'm not getting anywhere. ---

Re: network folder

2002-09-28 Thread Rhodri
the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network drive (mapping my network drive), namely, \\severname\myhomedirectory from my computer, not from the office's computer the system is controlled my tsg (technical support group) I connect to that folder from my office's computer

Fixing IP, gateway, etc.

2002-09-28 Thread DSC Publishing, LLC
Hi, I have a Woody installation with direct internet access through another linux box and KDE. Interestingly, though the ISP uses linux, they do not support linux. Though it's neither here nor there, I guess the setup is: my ETH0 -> Eth1 Gateway computer -> serial connection -> land-sat-dish /

Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"bob" == bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bob> I am using Debian 3.0.0. I installed it with a 2.2.20 kernel bob> which did not have scsi support. I later installed the bob> 2.4.18 kernel and got support for my scsi cd burner but I bob> have lost ability to read my ide

Re: Fixing IP, gateway, etc.

2002-09-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 21:06:28 + "DSC Publishing, LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyhow, they just changed their IP, gateway, proxy, DNS, FTP, and router > addresses. Take a look at: - /etc/resolv.conf - /etc/network/interfaces They should have what you're looking for. -- Jamin W. Collin

Kernel updates & security patches

2002-09-28 Thread Jeff Penn
I'm running a dialup workstation using Sarge with 2.4.18 compiled from a source package. I'd like to understand the Debian approach for keeping the kernel up to date (preferably using a minimum of bandwidth). Do package Debian kernel patches?, or are they only available for the gerneric Li

Re: network folder

2002-09-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rhodri said: > the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network drive > (mapping my network drive), namely, > > \\severname\myhomedirectory Might mean nfs. > from my computer, not from the office's computer > the system is controlled my tsg (techni

iptables problem (woody)

2002-09-28 Thread Joost
If I do "iptables -L" I get an error: - modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. - I'm new at Linux, have been playing with it for a few

Re: Kernel updates & security patches

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jeff" == Jeff Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> I'm running a dialup workstation using Sarge with 2.4.18 Jeff> compiled from a source package. I'd like to understand the Jeff> Debian approach for keeping the kernel up to date Jeff> (preferably using a minimum of bandwid

Re: iptables problem (woody)

2002-09-28 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
"Joost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I do "iptables -L" I get an error: > modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables [...] > I'm new at Linux, have been playing with it for a few weeks now. I am > unable to solve this myself (modprobe, modins all have never heard of > ip_tables). > I've inst

SANE packages unmaintained : intent to take over

2002-09-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
[debian-user : please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed to the list. Please avoid cross-posting on both lists. Please read the entire mail, instructions inside.] Hi, A few days ago, a small thread [1] on -devel complained about SANE packages (namely source packages sane-backends, sane-fronten

cs46xx sound again

2002-09-28 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, Thanks to Nate, I'm past the IRQ conflict. (Stroke of genius: move cards around, ah!) But the output is still "muted". How do I crank up a sound card? Control the balance? Find something like "amixer"? lsmod shows cs46xx soundcore ac97_codec Where are the docs for this type of thing?

Re: cs46xx sound again

2002-09-28 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:46:10 -0400 (EDT) Mark Copper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the output is still "muted". How do I crank up a sound card? > Control the balance? Find something like "amixer"? alsamixer (part alsa-utils) tkmixer (part of tkmixer) -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBS

Installing Debian on a stubborn laptop

2002-09-28 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi folks I have an old Toshiba 110CS laptop[1] that I'm trying to get Woody on to. After a few false starts I managed to get it booted and into the first stage of installation. It didn't like the first driver disk, but six floppies later I managed to find a disk it liked, and then it failed u

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

2002-09-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 28 September 2002 02:06, Oleg wrote: > > Building is not the problem. I have been using GCC 3.2 that I built from > sources, and I was successful in building STLport recently, however, I can > not run programs that I compile using them together: either static linking > fails, or if I l

Re: cs46xx sound again

2002-09-28 Thread nate
Mark Copper said: > Hi, > > Thanks to Nate, I'm past the IRQ conflict. (Stroke of genius: move cards > around, ah!) wish it was so simple on a laptop :/ > > But the output is still "muted". How do I crank up a sound card? > Control the balance? Find something like "amixer"? i use rexima as a

Re: Fixing IP, gateway, etc.

2002-09-28 Thread nate
DSC Publishing, LLC said: > Anyhow, they just changed their IP, gateway, proxy, DNS, FTP, and router > addresses. IP, gateway, netmask, broadcast, and network addresses are controlled by /etc/network/interfaces DNS addresses are controlled by /etc/resolv.conf proxy addresses are specific to t

Re: network folder

2002-09-28 Thread Jeff
Rhodri, 2002-Sep-28 11:51 -0700: > the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network drive > (mapping my network drive), namely, > > \\severname\myhomedirectory > > from my computer, not from the office's computer > the system is controlled my tsg (technical support group) > >

Re: Making an audio CD from mp3 and wav files

2002-09-28 Thread Jeff
Elimar Riesebieter, 2002-Sep-28 15:58 +0200: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of > Preben Randhol told: > > > Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/09/2002 (00:37) : > > > I'm having trouble finding a converter to make wav files from my ogg > > > and mp3 files. Can someone point me at

Re: network folder

2002-09-28 Thread Corrin Lakeland
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:55, Jeff wrote: > Rhodri, 2002-Sep-28 11:51 -0700: > > the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network > > drive (mapping my network drive), namely, > > > > \\severname\myhomedirectory > > > > from my computer, not from the office's computer > > the system

Setting up exim: was Setting up Sendmail

2002-09-28 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, Not because I gave up on Sendmail, but because of another problem (for some reason (I believe it had to do with uninstalling Sendmail which I did in order to start from scratch and install the package from source) when I shut down and restarted, Apache was unavailable, all the files are in

Re: Help getting Plip connection working

2002-09-28 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:30:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running kernel 2.4.18 on both boxxes. > Both running debian 3.0 > Unable to get plip to work??? Perhaps http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.3/0113.html will help you. I ran into that problem too. Anothe

NIS setup question

2002-09-28 Thread Neal Lippman
I don't think I understand the NIS Howto. I was left with the impression that with libc6 installed, I would not need ypbind because libc6 knows about NIS all by itself. I have set up another system as an NIS server (running ypserv), but my client system cannot seem to see the information from th

How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-28 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I would like to be a bit more up to date with some of my software - for instance, I'd like to be using KDE 3 instead of 2.2, and the newest evolution, so I was t

Re: NIS setup question

2002-09-28 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 06:38:34PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > It is the case that ypbind must be running on any NIS client system > regardless of whether it is using libc6 or not? Yes, you must run ypbind. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How 'stable' is 'testing'?

2002-09-28 Thread nate
Neal Lippman said: > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I > would like to be a bit more up to date with some of my software - for > instance, I'd like to be using KDE 3 instead of 2.2, and the n

Re: Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/09/02 j y did speaketh: > I have been trying to do scsi-ide emulation w/o success. I am actually > running SusSE 7.3 I have wanted to load Debian but I can even get my > cdrom or cdrw recognized anymore. I'm stuck, I have read the pages on > emulation and edited fstab & mtab but I'm not get

Re: How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 15:35]: > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I > would like to be a bit more up to date with some of my software - for > instance, I'd like to be using

Re: email clients

2002-09-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rick ter Schele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter> Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Proably old... but I've decided that I am getting really tired > >> of the Mozilla email. It's OK, but it takes a while

Re: help compiling everybuddy-0.4.3 on Woody

2002-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 08:48]: > I did the search for the files sought by configure, and found them, but > not where it expected them. My attempts to convince it to look in the > correct place (/usr/bin) have so far failed. I take it you mean gtk-config and glib-config, yes?

Re: How "stable" is "testing"?

2002-09-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 20:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 15:35]: > > I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their > > workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I > > would like to be a bit more up to date with s

caveats with rp-pppoe and kernel 2.4.18?

2002-09-28 Thread Shawn Lamson
I recently successfully custom compiled a 2.4.18 kernel and the only problem I am having is with rp-pppoe... all services are compiled into the kernel, I have no modules at all. I can manipulate eth0 and eth1 (only eth0 is relevant here) but i cannot use rp-pppoe to connect to the internet. I no

Re: Beginner Again

2002-09-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 06:48:30PM -0500, j y wrote: > I have been trying to do scsi-ide emulation w/o success. I am actually > running SusSE 7.3 I have wanted to load Debian but I can even get my > cdrom or cdrw recognized anymore. I'm stuck, I have read the pages on > emulation and edited fstab

Virtual Host set up problem

2002-09-28 Thread Brian Auty
Hello, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've set up a Debian Server running Apache with 2 network cards - one for internal, one for external. The system works perfectly when I set up just one domain. When I go to set up ip-based virtual hosting, I've followed these steps

Re: Virtual Host set up problem

2002-09-28 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:51PM -0400, Brian Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > > I've set up a Debian Server running Apache with 2 network cards - one for > internal, one for external. The system works perfectly when I set up just > one domai

A Better XTerm?

2002-09-28 Thread Josh Rehman
I'm looking for a better XTerm. I'm using Konsole right now (the one that KDE uses by default). The thing that I really want is the ability to horizontally scroll. The commands "top" and "ps -aux" often create very wide output, and I'd like to see it all. (I've been making the font very small as

Re: Last night's dist-upgrade broke Gnome-AA session :-(

2002-09-28 Thread Allen Linkenhoker
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 06:57, stan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:26:16PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:15:04PM -0400, stan wrote: > > > Last night I did apt-get dist-upgrade. I rememebr some font packages being > > > upgraded, and being asked if I wanted defoma t

Re: network folder

2002-09-28 Thread Jeff
Corrin Lakeland, 2002-Sep-29 10:07 +1200: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 09:55, Jeff wrote: > > Rhodri, 2002-Sep-28 11:51 -0700: > > > the network drive is Unix and I want to have access to my network > > > drive (mapping my network drive), namely, > > > > > > \\severname\myhomedirectory > > > > > > from m

Re: A Better XTerm?

2002-09-28 Thread Craig Dickson
Josh Rehman wrote: > I'm looking for a better XTerm. I'm using Konsole right now (the one > that KDE uses by default). > > The thing that I really want is the ability to horizontally scroll. The > commands "top" and "ps -aux" often create very wide output, and I'd like > to see it all. (I've be

Woody OpenLdap bind failure

2002-09-28 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
I have just installed the opendlap 2.x from Woody. anonymous binds connect but fail to list the root just giving the schema: Root DSE objectClass top objectClass OpenLDAProotDSE binds as the adim fail to bind ldap client used: http://www.iit.edu/~gawojar/ldap/

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