Snort question: snort.debian.conf and snort.conf's home_net

2003-03-04 Thread calyth
I was going to set up snort on the firewall that I'm using, but I was a bit dumbfounded by the fact that dpkg seems to make a config file called snort.debian.conf that has a home_net and snort.conf has it's own home_net. My question is, should I set the home_net both to the external device, the

DVD-ROM looks like /dev/scd0 even /dev/scd1, /dev/scd2

2003-03-04 Thread stavel
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Re: Debian on Dell Precision 420 and SCSI

2003-03-04 Thread nate
John Martinez said: > I have downloaded the Woody ISOs. I burned the CDs. I can boot the first > CD. The problem? It doesn't see my hard drive. what kernel are you booting? I think the default kernel doesn't support adaptec scsi cards, try the compact kernel(it's available on the same cd, look

Re: trap 123

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:26:11PM +1100, Andre Bramantja wrote: > I'm kinda newbie here. Does anyone know the meaning of command "trap > 12345" in file /etc/profile? trap is used to catch signals. Usually trap is used to just ignore them (like to prevent users from hitting ctrl-c at a critical ti

Re: xfree86 4.3

2003-03-04 Thread Roman Joost
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:02:14AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > Then go here: > http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/README > > Enjoy! > Josh Did these packages work for somebody who has an ati radeon card? I tried them and got many trouble for enabling GLX. I use the dri-trunk now and as i found out,

Re: Debian on Dell Precision 420 and SCSI

2003-03-04 Thread John Martinez
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:14 AM, nate wrote: what kernel are you booting? I think the default kernel doesn't support adaptec scsi cards, try the compact kernel(it's available on the same cd, look in the help when the boot menu comes up from the CD) Thanks for the great tips. I'm just boot

Spreadsheet Recommendation

2003-03-04 Thread Dieter Schoppitsch
Hi all, I'm looking for a spreadsheet which is small, fast, wysiwyg and similar to M$-Excel. SC ist fast and stable, but not compatible to anything. GNUMERIC, KSPREAD and OpenOffice are too big. Is there anything out there (like abiexcel) that covers my demand (or am I dreaming of 'hot ice cream

Re: Spreadsheet Recommendation

2003-03-04 Thread Oguz Altun
try Siag Office On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:09, Dieter Schoppitsch wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a spreadsheet which is small, fast, wysiwyg and similar > to M$-Excel. > > SC ist fast and stable, but not compatible to anything. > GNUMERIC, KSPREAD and OpenOffice are too big. > > Is the

Re: dselect

2003-03-04 Thread Oguz Altun
apt-cdrom On Monday 03 March 2003 23:36, Narins, Josh wrote: > ange his sources to be just that one -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree86 4.3

2003-03-04 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi All & Roman Joost, who typed On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:02:14AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: Then go here: http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/README Enjoy! Josh Did these packages work for somebody who has an ati radeon card? I tried them and got many trouble for enabling GLX. I use the dri-

adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-04 Thread stavel
I am root and want create new user ... $> whoami $> root $> adduser test $> Password: Once I have inserted root password it passed through it and added new user. Is it normal? Is it behaviour for increasing security or the PC is hacked? How do I turn off this behaviour? :-) --

Re: Xfs problem (actually X crashes after 1 second)

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:11:08PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Miky J wrote: [snip 904 lines] > > Hmm, try comment out line in XF86Config-4 containing > > LoadModule "dri". > > > > I hope that anyone else will know how to help you ... > > OP: you do have a

[no subject]

2003-03-04 Thread jazz
hi, few little questions about snmp monitoring on debian sarge: -how can i monitor process? i tried to do this in snmpd.conf for apache (proc apache 10 1), but i still got the error flag (no active process), however apache is running!-how can i associate a script excution when an error flag come

The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi Yall, spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us & me might find it of use, so here is the url http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=2949 It is written by Clinton De Young , who is in no small part responsible for me being on a Debian ba

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

2003-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:06, Nick Boyce wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:10:20 +0100, JAVALIN wrote: > > >I'm trying to install a KZPSA (Scsi) on an iintel machine (Pentium II > >400) with debian. > > Erm .. isn't a KZPSA a DEC-brand card intended for use in DEC Alpha > systems (the kind with PCI

MIME and Web Browser

2003-03-04 Thread vony . manga
Hi list ! I don't really understand the good way to make Galeon handle .ps.gz files. I tried to add an entry in my user's .mime.types configuration file and also in the system wide /etc/mime.types However Galeon still thinks it's an application/x-gzip file ! I also tried to add something in the G

Sendmail 8.12.8 compilation woes - missing symbols

2003-03-04 Thread Simone Cutherall
Hi there, I'm in the process of upgrading Sendmail on a batch of servers - no surprise there, I'm sure - and I've run into trouble on a few of them. On some of them, with an older version of libc (2.1.3), everything works fine; it all compiles, links, installs and runs without a hitch. On the

Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Subba Rao
I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) for every X minutes. For Windows, I found some software called "Oostime" that does exactly that and forces the user to take a break from the computer. Is there anything like that for Linux? Oostime is free and configurable. It

Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:50:03AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $> Password: > > Once I have inserted root password it passed through it and added new user. > > Is it normal? Yes, that is the password of the user you have to set. Without a password a user can't login. (You can use the --d

Re: Dummy

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
Thank you, I already installed the modem. The instructions that came with the .tar.gz file were very good. Now I have the problem of adding myself to the dialing group, I haven't found the way to do it. I was told to go to the /etc/group file and add myself in the entry: dialing:1004:user1,user2..

kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, I just tried to install the kernel-image-2.4.18 on woody. When I reboot my machine I get: request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 I don't un

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 00:32, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:56 AM > > Subject: Re: Couple of more questions. > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Ken

Re: Dummy

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> On March 2, 2003 12:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > On March 2, 2003 08:03 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > > > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > > >>> Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> But > > > > > >>> natively, Debian doesn't use the .rpm format > > > >

Sendmail woes - never mind!

2003-03-04 Thread Simone Cutherall
Never mind - new packages are now out, including a patch for 8.9.3, so my day has now improved! - Simone _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://messenger.msn.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 This will conflict with support for the Lucent Modem (the win modem) Please: rm -f /dev/modem and assign a

Re: Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:34:16AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: > I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) > for every X minutes. For Windows, I found some software called > "Oostime" that does exactly that and forces the user to take a break > from the computer. Is there an

Re: kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:54:45PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > I just tried to install the kernel-image-2.4.18 on woody. > When I reboot my machine I get: > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted Hmm. Did it not warn you during the installation to add a line for initrd to your

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:21:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:06, Nick Boyce wrote: > > > > Erm .. isn't a KZPSA a DEC-brand card intended for use in DEC Alpha > > systems (the kind with PCI buses, rather than Futurebuses) (where > > DEC=Compaq=Hewpaq as necessary) ? > >

Re: Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Gregory Seidman
Subba Rao sez: } I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) for } every X minutes. For Windows, I found some software called "Oostime" } that does exactly that and forces the user to take a break from the } computer. Is there anything like that for Linux? } } Oostime is

RE: kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Ellis
Just a hunch.. The kernel image probably doesn't contain support for your filesystem type. I've had similar with ext3 or Reiser partitions and forgetting to compile it into the kernel. Hope this helps, Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From:

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:17:23AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Another silly question for you. How can I make work my floppy drive in the > command line? It simply doesn't move. For the CD I do "apt-cdrom add" in a > directory different than /cdrom in order to make it work. Am I doing all > rig

Driver for Broadcom Voice Modem in Debian

2003-03-04 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently got a 700X Gateway computer with a GTW V.92 modem (BROADCOM). It had Windows XP but I was try also to install Debian (potato) and then upgrade to testing. I looked up google and Dell had put out a rpm driver for this but I was unable to convert this with alien. Has anyone an

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Mike!
Teilhard Knight wrote: I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 This will conflict with support for the Lucent Modem (the win modem) Please: rm -f /dev/modem

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-04 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 02:04, Russell Shaw wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > My son's proposed network is to be this: > > > > Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. > > Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. > > He has the switch and will be buying a PIII 400 2nd han

Help with Realtek ALC650 sound

2003-03-04 Thread Tim Wood
Hi, I upgraded my m/b to an Epox 8K5A2 with the Via KT333 chipset but including the VT8235 Southbridge (normally part of the KT400) with a RealTek ALC650 Codec (AC97). Realtek's website includes driver source for the Alsa-0.9.0rc5 (alcsound.tar.bz2). I'm running the 2.4.20-k7 kernel. Initiall

Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my machines running testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched sendmail binaries, based upon the announcement of a vulnerability in it yesterday. What's the story? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety d

Re: kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Harry Brueckner
You might have an old version of initrd-tools and/or your file /etc/mkinitrd/modules does not contain the filesystem modules you need. In my case I have ext2 and ext3 in there (each on a separate line). After modifying the file you have to run mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.4.20-586tsc-test /lib

Re: Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

2003-03-04 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:36:58 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:30:47PM -0600, David Falk wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart > > Array controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get D

Re: kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:43:34AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted > > Hmm. Did it not warn you during the installation to add a line for > initrd to your lilo.conf? While I haven't seen that (I saw the warning :-), > it looks like a likely sympt

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 12:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Who ate my sandwich? > > > > Not me ;-) > > How can I be sure ;o) He really was not. I was. It tasted wonderful. You want it back ? Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Ogg encoding broken in Sarge?

2003-03-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:34:00PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > Just confirming that I'm reading the bug reports correctly... I went > Woody --> Sarge last night without a hitch, except that Ogg encoding > broke. Running "oggenc" dies with a message about missing > libvorbisenc.so.0, which sure enoug

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my machines running > testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched sendmail binaries, based > upon the announcement of a vulnerability in it yesterday. > > What's the story? http:

Re: /etc/modutils/arch/i386

2003-03-04 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 08:31, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 00:43, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:47:23PM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: > > > > i commented out the "alias char-major-10-135 rtc" line in > >

Re: Spreadsheet Recommendation

2003-03-04 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
Dieter Schoppitsch wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a spreadsheet which is small, fast, wysiwyg and similar to M$-Excel. SC ist fast and stable, but not compatible to anything. GNUMERIC, KSPREAD and OpenOffice are too big. Is there anything out there (like abiexcel) that covers my demand (or am I d

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my machines running > testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched sendmail binaries, based > upon the announcement of a vulnerability in it yesterday. Testing doesn't have securit

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread GSO
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:06:34 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * GSO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 05:36]: > > > > As to the question of which to install. IMHO Linux needs to recognise > > it is not Windoze. The Linux desktop needs to provide a different > > rational to the user ba

Re: xfree86 4.3

2003-03-04 Thread christophe barbe
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:34:49PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > 3) If you downgrade your Xfree86 to 4.2.0 & install the ATI drivers, > then you will get the best 3D you can on Tux & 2D looks better also! I just want to precise that the method 3 is x86 only, said another way is not free

Re: Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

2003-03-04 Thread Bernhard Kuemel
Adam Conrad wrote: > > > MySQL used to work fine until the php4 package got replaced with > > php4-cgi and php4-mysql when I installed crossfire-server/unstable > > that triggered the installation of a new libc. > > This also sounds like an issue. If php4 got replaced with php4-cgi, you're > not

kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-04 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, As far as I understand the default compiler for sid is gcc 3.2. Today I installed kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 from sid and cat /proc/version shows Linux version 2.4.20-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 Am I missing something

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intelmachine

2003-03-04 Thread JAVALIN
- Mensaje Original - De: Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Marzo 4, 2003 5:06 am Asunto: Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:10:20 +0100, JAVALIN wrote: > > >I'm trying to install a KZPSA (Scsi) on an iintel machine (Pent

eth0: card reports no resources

2003-03-04 Thread mtsouk
Hello to everyone. I have the following problem: My Intel Pro100 PCI network card generates the message: eth0: card reports no resources Kernel version 2.4.18 What can I do to correct this problem? What problems can this cause? TIA, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-04 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, As far as I understand the default compiler for sid is gcc 3.2. Today I installed kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 from sid and cat /proc/version shows Linux version 2.4.20-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 Am I missing something

RE: Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

2003-03-04 Thread Adam Conrad
> -Original Message- > From: bernhard [mailto:bernhard] On Behalf Of Bernhard Kuemel > > Hmm, I managed to 'apt-get -t unstable install php4' which did not > work without '-t unstable'. Everything now works ok again. I include > the shell output and my /etc/apt/preferences, sources.list. S

Veritas compatibility.

2003-03-04 Thread Geir Oye
Hello, Anyone on the list familiar with the use of Veritas backup software on Linux Debian 2.2.? The idea is to use Veritas backup software in conjunction with HP SureStore Dat 40x6. (for server backup) (Also interested in experience on other backup systems used in conjunction with Debian,

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 08:15 PM 3/3/2003 -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: On March 3, 2003 06:33 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]: > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > > > davidpash

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mpiktas wrote: > As far as I understand the default compiler for sid is gcc 3.2. Today I > installed kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 from sid and cat /proc/version shows > > Linux version 2.4.20-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 > (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jan 14 00:

Re: Spreadsheet Recommendation

2003-03-04 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dieter Schoppitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Tuesday, 04 March 2003, 10:09 AM +0100): > I'm looking for a spreadsheet which is small, fast, wysiwyg and similar > to M$-Excel. > > SC ist fast and stable, but not compatible to anything. > GNUMERIC, KSPREAD and OpenOffice are too big. Umm, wh

Mounting and AdvFS on Woody

2003-03-04 Thread JAVALIN
He all, ¿It's posible to mount an AdvFS (Tru64 file system) whith Debian? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Veritas compatibility.

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Geir Oye wrote: > Hello, > > Anyone on the list familiar with the use of Veritas backup software on > Linux Debian 2.2.? > > The idea is to use Veritas backup software in conjunction with HP > SureStore Dat 40x6. (for server backup) > (Also interested in experience on other

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for getting KDE > > packages. I used that and am running KDE right n

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intelmachine

2003-03-04 Thread JAVALIN
- Mensaje Original - De: Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Marzo 4, 2003 5:06 am Asunto: Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:10:20 +0100, JAVALIN wrote: > > >I'm trying to install a KZPSA (Scsi) on an iintel machine (Pent

Re: Dummy

2003-03-04 Thread Kent West
Teilhard Knight wrote: Now I have the problem of adding myself to the dialing group, I haven't found the way to do it. I was told to go to the /etc/group file and add myself in the entry: dialing:1004:user1,user2., "dialup", not "dialing". And yes, you can manually edit the /etc/group file

Re: /etc/modutils/arch/i386

2003-03-04 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > thanks, that helps. one more question: > > if /etc/modutils/arch/i386 describes the mappings, where is the module > (char-major-10-135) being told to load at boot time? > > Somewhere in the /lib/modules/2.X.X directories. Jeffrey -- To U

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Kent West
Teilhard Knight wrote: Question 1: I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 This will conflict with support for the Lucent Modem (the win modem) Please: rm -f

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Carla Schroder
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 3:16 am, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > Hi Yall, > > spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us & me might > find it of use, so here is the url > > http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=2949 That's a great link, thanks. Compiling kernels isn't

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my machines running > > testing, and I was surprised to not [pull patched sendmail binaries, based > > upon the announcem

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix - revisited

2003-03-04 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 00:13, bob parker wrote: > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up > connection. > > I started on 27 January. > > Murphy's Law being what it is the md5sum of my d/l iso differs from the one > I got from the ftp site. > I finally got back to this a

Re: Font antialiasing on Phoenix

2003-03-04 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Thank all of you for the precious answers. Problem solved! Cheers, Bruno. On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:45, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:54:51PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:45, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have tried Phoenix and found

Re: Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:34:16AM -0500, Subba Rao wrote: > > I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) for > every X minutes. For Windows, I found some software called "Oostime" that does > exactly that and forces the user to take a break from the computer. Is there >

Re: Want to creat a CD with indexed HTML content

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks for the pointer Richard Pat On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 12:54 pm, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:32:16AM +, Pat Colbeck wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a > > CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The ide

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my > > > machines running testing, and I was surprised to not

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

2003-03-04 Thread Janke Dávid
- Original Message - From: "Michael Heironimus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:49 AM Subject: Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box. > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm looking for a motherboard replac

Installing a New Boot Loader on a Software RAID

2003-03-04 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hi, Is it possible to change the boot loader on a software RAID system while the system is running in multiuser mode? Currently the machine has LILO installed, but I would like to switch it to grub. -- Robert -- -- Rob

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:08, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: [snip] > All previous encounters with KDE were less than acceptable for me. > > But now with 3.1 i have to say "WOW" ( and a mighty

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread al davis
On Monday 03 March 2003 09:10 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > I would recommend the unstable sources.. As far as I can > tell all of KDE is now in it. No. kmail and knode are still not there. I don't know what else is missing. On my system, noatun acts strange sometimes, but kwave is fine. I don't

Windows Server 2003

2003-03-04 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi ppl, I've been reading up on Windows Server 2003 and though I realize that most of what i'm reading is just wat MS wants me to read,anyways some of the features seem to be of good potential,Linux has been holding the upper hand in the Server segment so far, was wondering bout steps being tak

TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Dave Selby
Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-installing ? I think it

Re: Installing a New Boot Loader on a Software RAID

2003-03-04 Thread nate
Robert James Kaes said: > Hi, > Is it possible to change the boot loader on a software RAID system while > the system is running in multiuser mode? Currently the machine has LILO > installed, but I would like to switch it to grub. I can't imagine why not, but you won't be able to test it without

glob(7) man page is confusing

2003-03-04 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
In the glob(7) man page, you find the following: >Ranges >There is one special convention: two characters separated by `-' denote >a range. (Thus, `[A-Fa-f0-9]' is >equivalent to `[ABCDEFabcdef0123456789]'.) One may include `-' in its >literal meaning by making it the >first or last characte

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Mike!
Dave Selby wrote: Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-install

Re: exim trouble with DB file... SOLVED

2003-03-04 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:49:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > | since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and > | "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. > | > | i get this daily in my cron reports--an

Re: Windows Server 2003

2003-03-04 Thread Carla Schroder
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 9:49 am, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi ppl, > > I've been reading up on Windows Server 2003 and though I realize that most > of what i'm reading is just wat MS wants me to read,anyways some of the > features seem to be of good potential,Linux has been holding the upper hand > in

debian-friendly mason-cm package?

2003-03-04 Thread Will Trillich
i'm looking to install HTML::Mason's "content management" features via *.deb, hopefully-- i've got apt-get install libhtml-mason-perl and i've since discovered that HTML::Mason also offers a content management toolbox of sorts, so i'd like to try it out -- but # apt-cache search

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Mark Schouten
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:08PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is > blurred on top pixel line > > I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT > monitors, at the time I ignored them. > > How

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. > > Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by > > backporting patches. I

What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
Sorry, I am just getting tired that for dialing my ISP everything seems to frustrate me. I suppose a way to dial is with Diald. Now, there are no options to dial, but to connect. There are two kinds of connection: remote and local. For the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local

VM: killing process polyclt

2003-03-04 Thread mtsouk
Hello again. I am facing the following problem: paegasus:/usr/local/polydev/bin # ifconfig 0: error fetching interface information: Device not found paegasus:/usr/local/polydev/bin # As far as I can understand, the system looses the network card. After 5 mins, the system finds the network card a

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-04 Thread Mpiktas
Hi, > As far as I understand the default compiler for sid is gcc 3.2. Today I > installed kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 from sid and cat /proc/version shows > > Linux version 2.4.20-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 > (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 That's due to th

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 02:04 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, stan wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I did ap

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
- Original Message - From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Win Modem > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:17:23AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Another silly question for you. How can I make work my floppy

Re: Win Modem

2003-03-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
> Teilhard Knight wrote: > > I got the drivers for my Win Modem and I just installed an USB modem. Now, > > when I try to install the Win Modem drivers I get: > > > > "The modem symbolic link is: /dev/modem ---> ./ttySL0 > > This will conflict with support for the Lucent Modem (the win modem) > > P

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. > > Anyway, if you run testing you need to manage the security yourself by > > backporting patches. I don

commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey, by default, a shell script just appears as the script name in a list of processes (ps; top), right? how can i make it show each command called within the script as it's being executed? thanks, -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/

mozilla mail filtering (PEBKAC)

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030303 19:20 PST]: > If you prefer a GUI client, sylpheed and balsa seem to be good choices, > with an allegedly 'mutt-ish' feel. Also, some people use Mozilla Mail, > but it seems to have some issues with effectively filtering list mail. AFAIK, any filtering iss

RE: debian-friendly mason-cm package?

2003-03-04 Thread Narins, Josh
I think you are looking for a package which does not exist yet, called "bricolage" http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/being_packaged > -Original Message- > From: Will Trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: debian-frie

snmp and process monitoring on debian

2003-03-04 Thread jazz
hi, few little questions about snmp monitoring on debian sarge: -how can i monitor process? i tried to do this in snmpd.conf for apache (proc apache 10 1), but i still got the error flag (no active process), however apache is running!-how can i associate a script excution when an error flag comes

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:52 am, Mike! wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > >?Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except > > occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line > >? > >?I remember when I was installing debian there were > > questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 11:06 PST]: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > Someone

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 7:12 pm, Mark Schouten wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:08PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of > > text is blurred on top pixel line > > > > I remember when I was installing debian there were questio

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