SOLVED: Root password 2 times

2003-07-08 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, I have commented this line in both login and rlogin and it works now : #auth requisite pam_securetty.so I had only commented login. Murat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Michael Biebl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 7. Juli 2003 20:35 An: Yildiz, Murat Cc: '[EMA

Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread royotto
Hi there We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this somewhere? Regards Roy -

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this somewhere? there is a securing debian guide somewhere on the documentation pages. as u know, debian is a volunteer driven service so

Re: xterm configuration

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:43:44PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > For Eterm, using the same fixed font would suffice. I have no idea at all > if Eterm supports AA's fonts or what it does to simulate line-drawing with > them if it does. It indeed does not support AA. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the > net, but no luck. > > I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD > entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified >

Re: strange packet denial

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:12:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following report of a denied packet has been appearing about once > or twice a day in my system logs: > > Jul 4 10:12:48 gateway kernel: Packet log: > input DENY eth0 PROTO=2 0.0.0.0:65535 224.0.0.2:65535 > L=32 S=0x00 I

Re: Disabling X from listening to port 6000 the debian way!

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 08:31:05PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > Its just another warm Saturday afternoon and I'm trying to up the > security of the local network. I've noticed that I had port 1024 open > and port 6000 open, presumably for wdm and X11 respectively > > Since I use only

Re: gv ps.bz2 instead of ps.gz

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed > postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones? Under zsh, 'gv =(bzcat file.ps.b2)' opens it up fine. '=(bzcat file.ps.bz2)' runs 'bzcat file.ps.bz2', stores

Re: APT error

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:43:31PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > i tried to upgrade my system with > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > after it downloaded all files i got this error: > E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libpam0g > > What does that mean? This

Re: A bit OT: conversion mp3 to wav

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:23:34PM +, Vittorio wrote: > Sebastian Kapfer [debian-user] <05/07/03 18:59 +0200>: > > On Sat, 05 Jul 2003 13:50:08 +0200, vdemar wrote: > > > > > E.g., If I issue the basic command > > > > > > mpg123 -w weare.wav weare.mp3 > > [...] > > > Illegal instruction > >

Re: Libc6 broken -- unable to boot...

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody: > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian > installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my > installation of libc6, while trying to install a newer version, and t

Re: X_version_set.tgz (Superprobe)

2003-07-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > > Hi , > I need the file X_version_set.tgz and cannot get it through our proxy from > ftp://ftp.XFree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/binaries > > Where else can I download it? Why do you need it? It's not required to setup X with Debi

Re: Default header weeding in Mutt

2003-07-08 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 01:03:49AM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I recently had a mail exchange with Marco d'Itri regarding the default > setup of Mutt. More specifically, that it hides the Date header and > displays instead the Delivery-Date d

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-08 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On July 7, 2003 08:34 pm, Daniel B. wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > >... > > - similarly, you cannot mix 2MB buffer disks with 8MB > > buffer disks > > Unless someone can confirm that, I believe that statement is bogus. yup, thats complete bullshit. I have a drive with a 2MB Cache IBM Deaths

Re: Squirrel Mail

2003-07-08 Thread tt tt
I don't think it is a problem with imapd as it has not been upgraded. I do know that the squirel mail package was upgraded yesterday.   I will try testing imapd and post back to this list. Thanks Want to chat instantly with

Re: apt-get/dselect - network *or* CDs

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the net, but no luck. I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the spec

Re: Squirrel Mail

2003-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 09:24:36 +0100 (BST) tt tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it is a problem with imapd as it has not > been upgraded. I do know that the squirel mail package > was upgraded yesterday.   > I will try testing imapd and post back to this list. Also try deleting the c

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-08 Thread TR
File: *manpages*, Node: localepurge, Up: (dir) LOCALEPURGE(8) LOCALEPURGE(8) NAME localepurge - removing superfluous locale data SYNOPSIS localepurge DESCRIPTION localepurge is a small script to recover disk space wasted for unne

Re: Also won't for me (no sshd)

2003-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:36:19AM -0400, Soren Andersen wrote: > Hope this is the correct newsgroup to post on. > Thought I might go to a distro specific site first, 'cos intuition > tells me this might be a distro specific thing. > > Right - > > sshd wont start. > Just wont. > Doesn't ditch wit

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:26:00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux > boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers > and optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? The Debian projec

Re: but I don't want the Russian etc. documentation

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:30:06 +0200, Dan Jacobson wrote: > regarding "remove the rest", the pros must have a better way than the > below, no? > > # dlocate -l apt-howto|tr -s \ |cut -d \ -f2| > awk '/apt/&&!/-en/'|xargs apt-get -y --purge remove In the fine tradition of 'go away or I shall replac

building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

2003-07-08 Thread Anders Lennartsson
building modules for openafs based on openafs-source-modules 1.2.9-2 at the same time as building kernel 2.4.21 fails on a recently updated sid system. the build stops where net/sock.h cannot be found and included during compilation of ../rx/rx_knet.c this file should be included from the kernel s

Re: Recommend site for debian lan topology

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:30:28 +0200, lists1 wrote: > Can anyone recommend a non-registration site that clearly explains what > services normally run on a small company lan? Say 25-100 users or so. Running services is usually a matter of what you need, I've put some links at the end. > I'm tryin

Re: What's the best forum to discuss linux(especially Debian) besides this mailing list?

2003-07-08 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 03:50:06 +0200, Zhao YouBing wrote: > LinuxQuestions or other ?? > > What forums do u think best or visit most? Me? #debian on irc.freenode.net -- Stephen Patterson http://www.lexx.uklinux.net http://patter.mine.nu [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove SPAM to reply Linux Count

Re: building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

2003-07-08 Thread Anders Lennartsson
I should have mentioned that my first post was with kernel-source-2.4.21-2 and using gcc-3.2 for both kernel and openafs, by setting cc pointing to gcc pointing to gcc-3.2. Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image,

exim, postfix or qmail?

2003-07-08 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I have a server running woody and currently I'm using exim v3. I have configured procmail and amavis-ng. However, I'm not that content with the configuration. It seems to be not that intuitive, but that may be my fault. Maybe I should just dive in the docs. My question: are there any ex

Re: X lockups

2003-07-08 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 15:10, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > My suspicion is towards Mozilla-Firebird. At least one time, I was > editing an input form. At the moment, this activity still crashes > firebird quite often, but luckily with no harm done to X. I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not

klogd problem

2003-07-08 Thread Ilya S. Sapytsky
Good day! I've got some problems with klogd on 2 different servers. First one is debian woody+2.2.20 and second is debian woody+2.4.20, both has kernels compiled by hand, sysklogd 1.4.1-10 and klogd 1.4.1-10. When system is operating i don't see any firewall messages in /var/log/syslog. But there i

XFS + big IDE drive on woody : need help

2003-07-08 Thread Gilles Missonnier
Hello, I need to have together : XFS on all file system and big IDE drive. what I want to do is to add on the IDE bus 2 disks of 250 giga each. the BIOS sees the correct size of the disk. the PROBLEM is that, when booted, I cannot see the whole size of the disk : limit to the 137 gi

Re: apt-get update: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

2003-07-08 Thread Robert August Vincent II
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:01:23PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert August Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Question: > > > 1. Is this a bug in Dansguardian, or is it the fault of the > > webservers which deliver incorrect Content-Type: headers? > >

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33

2003-07-08 Thread ew0hfx
Hi list I'm trying to create a custom kernel. The problem is this: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33 I get 2 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-33 more 2 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-34 and 8 lines: modprobe: modprobe: Ca

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39:21PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > I have manage to figure out that by messing with the chipset settings > > in the BIOS I can change the speed of the CPU's opertation. I.e., > > setting a speed of 166 MH

Re: X lockups

2003-07-08 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, July 08 at 7:35 AM EDT Bradley Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am really starting to suspect Gnome. I am not a Gnome fan, but it has >sort of infiltrated my desktop, through the use of apps like Galeon, >Evolution etc. > >I dist-upgraded last night, left the system running with tw

Re: Switch full screen progs?

2003-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
> > In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in > > full screen? > > Yes but it depends on the windows manager. I'm running gnome2 with > metacity right now and I can do that easily with Alt-Tab. I think that > might also work with wmaker and icewm, but I'm not sure at all. W

S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread Jose colmenares
I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's something like s3verige.   When I run X the upper parte of the screen seems to "fold", and str

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pleae turn on your line wraps to about 70 columns so people can easily read and respond to you. On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:26:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our > Linux boxes and I h

apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Dirk Ouellette
I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system gets as far as ; Fetched 1500kB in 27s (55.4kB/s) Reading Package Lists... 66% and then hangs. This came on out of nowhere though possibly when I upgraded

apt-get problem

2003-07-08 Thread Henning Moll
Hi! On the system of a friend of me, apt-get is unable to 'upgrade'. It recommends the use of 'apt-get -f install'. Here's the output: snip # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be RE

Re: apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote: > I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt > on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system > gets as far as ; Well, you might want

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jose colmenares wrote: > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a > S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that > appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's something like > s3verige. If you use Debian Woody with

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I > have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for > maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this > somewhere? We chose Debian where I work

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:21, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jose colmenares wrote: > > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I have a > > S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest option that > > appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it'

Re: building openafs-modules for 2.4.21 fails

2003-07-08 Thread David Z Maze
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from > a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image, modules-image and > kernel-headers processed fine. > > So something in the debian kernel-source seems to break compilatio

Re: How to play CD and video in debian?

2003-07-08 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 July 2003 07:45 pm, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > I am using kde3.1.2, but the system cannot play CD and video CD. > when i insert a CD in the cdrom, and doing > "mount /dev/cdrom" > there is some error, > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, ba

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-08 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:54:54PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > The mobo is rated for a 3200+ @ 400 MHz FSB and so is the Zalman. > Memory _should_ be good too, it's brand new. That's never stopped memory from being bad in the past. H

gs and the stp driver

2003-07-08 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been struggling for a while to get printing working (under woody). My most recent fallback position is, "screw getting it working on the network, just make it possible to print a file from my laptop". Hack. Hack. Hack. Eventually I get to this:

Re: apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote: I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system gets as far as ; # apt-get update E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, July 07 at 5:22 PM EDT > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > >good but is there a doc somewhere that exp

cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes

2003-07-08 Thread Levi Waldron
I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and actual directories and filenames. And of course all the filename extensions are .HTM. Does anyone know of a script to clean this up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Levi Waldron
On July 8, 2003 03:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux > boxes and I have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and > optimizing these for maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there > a guide on how to

RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread jaretis
Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? Out of curiosity, which distros support these packages? Does Mandrake? -surgin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install | a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian | packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? No. | Out of curiosity, which distros suppo

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread Aaron
On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and > thought it might be useful > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think >

modem kernel 2.4.18-newpmac

2003-07-08 Thread Vincent Le Bayon
Hi, I'm using a G3 lombard an woody 3.0r0 Modem works fine with kernel vmlinux-2.2.20-pmac But with kernel vmlinux-2.4.18-newpmac modem can not dialout It make ATZ but nothing else Thanks for help -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

A menu bug?

2003-07-08 Thread Todd Pytel
I'm noticing a very peculiar behavior trying to translate menus. First I tried using the example in /etc/menu-methods/translate_menus - changing "Apps" to "Programs". Using the "subtranslate" directive destroyed the subfolder hierarchy under Programs, so I tried using "substitute" instead. This

test program

2003-07-08 Thread LeVA
Hi! I need a testing program (under console or X) which can test memory, mainboard, cpu, disks, graphics card, network card, sound card etc... Anybody could suggest a nice, and useable one? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

-ck patches and sound with skips

2003-07-08 Thread Christophe Courtois
Hi, I've applied the -ck patches to my 2.4.20 kernel (lowlatency, preempt, O(1), rmap and other patches). At first sight, KDE and X seem to be more responsive, but I can hear xmms skip when I click on something. It was almost never the case with previous unpatched kernels. Priority of X is

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install } a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian } packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? Out } of curiosity, which distros support th

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install > a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian > packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? Out > of curiosity, which distros support these packages? Does > Mandrake? N

pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread LeVA
Hello! Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, then which program do I need to use? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Order ide drivers are loaded?

2003-07-08 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! A friend's computer has a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP-A Ultra motherboard. This mobo has the usual 2 ide controllers (VIA), plus 2 more from Promise (PDC20276), plus 2 SATA connectors (Sil3112). The problem is that both the Promise and the SATA contr

apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Rodney D. Myers
apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the following /etc/apt/sources.list; E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI) I'm starting over due to a hard drive failure. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 11:00]: > In a message dated 7/6/03 6:55:47 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Was the hard disk IBM by any chance. IBM hard drives are renowned for > > their click of death. Nothing to do with Linux. I think it might have >

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install a suite > of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian packages. Does > Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? You'd probably have to ask Red Hat that questio

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, > > and thought it might be useful > > to share some of the r

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Ferlatte
LeVA said on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200: > Hello! > > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? ps2pdf will create a PDF from any PostScript file. Most unix software can generate PostScript (ie, Mozilla, GNOME apps, K

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? pdf is not a nativ format, you'll always transfer something else into a pdf document. Create a Postscript file from any a

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? I don't know what you mean by clean. But almost every Unix/Linux program can output as PostScript (.ps files). You can t

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on /dev/hda You want to write the boot loader to the MBR, not the partition boot sector. If

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies...

2003-07-08 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm compiling a kernel using the docs provided at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html and it's all > good but is there a doc somewhere that explains the options in the > kernel configurati

Re: pptpd help

2003-07-08 Thread C. R. Oldham
> When I ping other hosts on the Debian server's network > the traffic is going across the PPTP link, but > nothing comes back. What am I missing? After much googling, I realized that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was not set to 1. I was used to this being set as the default, but the sarge ins

Networking Problems

2003-07-08 Thread Pablo Limon
Hello, Im new to the list, and I have a new problem, one that I havent seen before. I have a pcmcia card, a CNET SiglePoint 10/100 FastEthernet PCcard atached to a Compaq Presario 1711LA computer. This is eth1. Eth0 is the internal Ethernet card and is atached to a ADSL modem. Eth1 is the intranet.

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 09:47]: > km> I recommend making a boot floppy: > > km> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 > > Well I was able to make the boot floppy ... > > But *now*, I can't even run "grub-install /dev/hda" without an error > message: > >

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I routinely write using LaTeX and use pdflatex to generate the output in PDF format... I've actually found I get better results doing this than producing the LaTeX to PS and then run it through ps2pdf... Regards, Jeremy T. Bouse On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:30:53PM +0200, Le

Re: Kernel Options for Dummies... + Followup...

2003-07-08 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:18:35 -0700 (PDT) > Gary Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When asked: ...install a partition boot block on /dev/hda1? > > I answer: yes - I originally set up debian to have the mbr on > /dev/hda > > You want to write

Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

2003-07-08 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > | I'm in the process of setting up port forwarding to bypass my spam-crazy > | ISP. I've got everything working, but I'd like to try putting the port > | forw

Re: Bad experience in installation

2003-07-08 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi, > Take note of Jamin's comments. Whatever anecdotes you read here > should not be considered data. Seconded. No data ahead here. > I've also had problems with IBM drives, but I believe it was a > particular model that was bad (it was a 60GB deskstar). A particular > model, I said, not a pa

Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

2003-07-08 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Ok, I'm ready for the next step. I've set up Public Key Authentication and have installed "keychain" and set it up (and added it to .bash_profile and made it quiet). I can now ssh to the server without having to enter a password (it sort of creeps me out that I can do it, but I'm sure I'll get over

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? Have a look at scribus. -- Moritz Moeller-Herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wiss. Mitarbeiter, IMGB La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches

Trouble with USB

2003-07-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I can't seem to get USB working. I have all the necessary options enabled in the kernel (as modules). I have also tested under a Red Hat install on another partition (no flames please ;) and the USB mouse and USB SmartMedia card both work, but not with Debian. I also have the hotplug scripts i

Re: RedHat support of Debian packages

2003-07-08 Thread Mohammed Sameer
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:19:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our admin has a Redhat box set up and I would like to install > a suite of medical imaging tools that are composed of Debian > packages. Does Redhat support Debian packages (.deb)? Out > of curiosity, which distros support th

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread lists1
Besides the aforementioned ps2pdf and other tools, if you are coming from a windows environment, you can also use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice to do the same. OpenOffice.org is a free download (and is available on cds cheaply from many places, check the site, and your country, school, or favori

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-08 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 08-07-2003, om 17:34 schreef Jamin W. Collins: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:54:54PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > --- "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > > > The mobo is rated for a 3200+ @ 400 MHz FSB and so is the Zalman. > > Memory _should_ be good too, it's brand n

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Wayne Topa
LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello! > > Is it possible to create new, clean .pdf files under linux? If it is, > then which program do I need to use? openoffice1.1beta will output PDF files from any MSWord or OO file. -- Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive

magic.mime (was: apache)

2003-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* mi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030703 14:50]: > 2) Where is mime_magic ? > > This is filling up the log: > > # /var/log/apache/error.log: > > [Wed Jul 2 19:09:08 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory: > mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic > > Though /etc/apache/httpd.

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-08 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > just wondering. a google search revealed a deadlink http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp

Re: Libc6 broken -- unable to boot...

2003-07-08 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:30:05PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:55:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody: > > I am getting kind of desperate with this and before trhasong all my debian > > installation I would like to beg for help in the list. I broke my > > i

Video problems and questions

2003-07-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am still in the process of getting my new machine to maximum performance, so I pose yet another question: How do I maximize my card's performance under X and how do I get the framebuffer to work? As far as X performance, what should I know about? How do I know if I am using the hardware OpenGL

Re: fetchmail and port forwarding

2003-07-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Emma" == Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emma> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Emma> Hudson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 11:08:40PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin >> | Right now I run from the command line: >> | ssh my.mail.host -L 8

Re: OT: CPU Speed and Temperature

2003-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On 8 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 00:52, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > I adjusted the the "FSB Frequency" down from 166 MHz to 133 MHz. I usually > > get temps of 48-52 C after a few hours of normal use (running as a 1900+). > > If I do anything CPU intensive (compile a

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-08 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 19:42, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:53:54PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > > just wondering. a google search revealed a deadlink > > http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ I would personally recommend the above link, as well, also put test

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there > > We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I > have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for > maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide

XServer installation

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Francis
Hello:   I am trying to install XServer. When issue the command apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the error "xserver-xfree86 depents: zlib1g .. but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages   I suppose this has to do with by version of Debian.   How can I fix this problem   P.S. I

Free Original copy of Never Winter Nights for Linux going! (andits original)

2003-07-08 Thread Mark C
Hi, Yes you read the title correctly, being a complete idiot I ordered 2 copies of nwn from tuxgames, I could of sent it back, but I went on holiday after receiving it and missed sending it back. Yes its all original, and not unwrapped at all, all I ask is that you pay for the postage, being a deb

Re: pdf creator

2003-07-08 Thread Zhao YouBing
lists1 wrote: Besides the aforementioned ps2pdf and other tools, if you are coming from a windows environment, you can also use OpenOffice.org or StarOffice to do the same. OpenOffice.org is a free download (and is available on cds cheaply from many places, check the site, and your country, sc

Re: XServer installation

2003-07-08 Thread Mark C
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 00:57, Peter Francis wrote: > Hello: > > I am trying to install XServer. When issue the command > apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I get the error "xserver-xfree86 > depents: zlib1g .. but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages Have you by any chance got multiple

Re: apt-get update gives an error message

2003-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > apt-get update gives the following error message, when I try and use the > following /etc/apt/sources.list; > > E: Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI) So ... what's the /etc/apt/sources.list in question?

X's "default console input source" = /dev/what?

2003-07-08 Thread Pigeon
From "man kbd" for X 4.3.0: (Doesn't exist in earlier versions) The following driver Options are supported: Option "Device" "string" Specify the keyboard device. Default: the OS's default console keyboard input source. This is /dev/console, right? No...

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread SF deb
How do they CHECK the servers? Could you not do it yourself? with nmap or www.pcflank.com will scan your server. Scott - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:26 AM Subject: Securing a Debian server > Hi there > > We're th

Re: S3 Trio 64/32

2003-07-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:47, Jose colmenares wrote: > I've just installed Debian, but cannot configure the video card. I > have a S3 Trio 64/32, but don't know what driver to use. The closest > option that appears when I run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 it's > something like s3verige. > > Whe

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