Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > is increasing exponentially. >

Re: realteck RTL 8193c module problem

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the output of "lsmod"? Did you "insmod" or added module name to /etc/modules ? Hi, the output of lsmod is no 8139too. the /etc/modules has 8139too in it the insmod said /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o:unresolved symbol mii_link_ok_Rsmp

viewcvs from stable to testing

2003-09-20 Thread Jesse Yurkovich
I've just upgraded a system from stable to testing and having worked out most of the other issues involved in such a huge upgrade but I can not seem to get viewcvs 0.9.2+cvs.1.0.dev.2003.05.05-3 to work correctly. Directory listings seem to work but that's about it. I thought it might be a probl

Re: Illegal instruction after upgrade

2003-09-20 Thread David S. Miller
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:22:25 -0700 Bruce Pinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are > giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is some > instruction in libc6 that is not valid on the SPARC (i.e. a bug), but am

Re: installing a mixed system (stable/testing/unstable) under separate directories

2003-09-20 Thread Mark
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:19:35AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > Package pinning is driving my crazy. Every now and then I just have to > have something that is only available in testing or unstable. My > favorite option is to download the source, compile it myself and > install in /usr/local but eve

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Michael D Schleif
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:19:18:41:51+0200] scribed: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:14:56 -0500, > Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > At 2003-09-19T03:33:53Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > OK, last iteration (I promise).

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:58:25 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's > pop3 server in the 1st place? What pop server? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E9

Re: NAT

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ashish Ariga wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:00, Adrian Berardi wrote: Hi, i'm a new debian user, and without too much experience in linux. I'm trying to install a Debian here at home to use it as internet access for a couple windows PCs. Someone told me that i had to install first the two eth,

starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Epprecht
I prefer the text console over X, whenever it is appropriate. The downside is, that my knowledge about X is very limited. I just installed kde which I use rarely ;-) Now I'm trying to build an box for audio work, where kde is too heavy. So I would like to try out some lightweight windowmanagers.

Re: apt-get and gzipped Package list files

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Antti Peltonen wrote: Hi, Our "companys" proxy server is pain in the ass.. all web access _must_ go thru it and on some really mind boglingly stupid reason it decompresses Gzipped files as default. And suprise suprise the maintaince crew is unwilling to change this behaviour. Because of this

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 02:31, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:58:25 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's > > pop3 server in the 1st place? > > What pop server? Ummm, the pop server that stores your email

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Mark
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:57:17AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > I prefer the text console over X, whenever it is appropriate. > The downside is, that my knowledge about X is very limited. > I just installed kde which I use rarely ;-) > > Now I'm trying to build an box for audio work, where kde

Re: Insert module at startup

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:09:21PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: | | Greg Folkert said: | > | > People read. Please change this | > consequences. Like break they way | > top posting has some very annoying | > In regard to top posting | | I agree with you 100%. I think.

Re: Using SpamAssassin (was: Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances)

2003-09-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:30:43PM +0200, Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 05:33, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > I don't know what's going on, but I've been getting literally > > hundreds of virus/worm-looking emails per hour all day today. I > > grew tired of it and

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
> Now I'm trying to build an box for audio work, where kde is too heavy. > So I would like to try out some lightweight windowmanagers. What is an > easy way to start different window managers (so I can try them out)? > I'm working on Debian unstable. $ startx /usr/bin/X11/mywindowmanager or even

Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
Hi there, I'm tring to install my new Debian-System (my first one). Everything is going quite fine, except that I am not able to compile any QT-Application (KDE as well). I searched the web all over for a couple of times, but I cannot find any solution ;(( My system's state is testing and I to

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Sa, 2003-09-20 um 11.15 schrieb Thomas Baumann: > I'm tring to install my new Debian-System (my first one). Everything is going > quite fine, except that I am not able to compile any QT-Application (KDE as > well). I searched the web all over for a couple of times, but I cannot find > an

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
hi, sorry I didn't mention that I also set QTDIR and added /usr/share/qt3/bin to my PATH. I don't know qmake, but I think I can't use it as I do not have any *.pro files. Is there a way to use qmake within a normal configure process i.e. any kde-app?? I just want to compile a usual distribute

Re: Checking loaded modules?

2003-09-20 Thread Waldemar Gorus
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:54:43PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a way of checking what modules are loaded? I ask because I want to upgrade > to 2.4.18-k7 (so I can use sndconfig), but the image doesn't support my network > driver (I know, I've tried). If I can find out what module i

Big Problem ? With APT-GET Database

2003-09-20 Thread JL
Hi, After just upgrading woody to testing i ran into this issue that doesn't go away this time. Whatever i do with apt-get the errormessage below is shown and this time it isn't fixed by any apt-get or dpkg commands. j-box:/home/joris# apt-get install hdparm Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dyn

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Michael C.
In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > > that look like there from

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:35:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The return path is the actual email address of the infected > victim/sucker. Are you sure? This makes absolutely no sense based on the samples I'm seeing. For example, "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Received: from gilead.media4.pl".

Too Funny - Outlook Spell Checker

2003-09-20 Thread Garth Mosher
Greetings, all -- I'm a debian newbie, up and running for a whole 3 days now! Anyway, at work, they force feed us MS Outlook. I finished typing an e-mail that mentioned 'debian', and the spell checker popped up. The first suggestion it offered was 'defiant.' I thought -- that fits!! ___

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 20, 2003 02:15 am, Thomas Baumann wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm tring to install my new Debian-System (my first one). Everything is > going quite fine, except that I am not able to compile any QT-Application > (KDE as well). I searched the web all over for a couple of times, but I > canno

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Chad M Stewart
I actually went through the trouble yesterday of setting up anti-virus software on my mail server. This is the first time that my personal email account has ever come under fire by an M$ virus, ugh! Makes me glad to be a Mac user. The rate seems to have slowed, at least for me, since yesterd

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
I did try --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, --with-qt-includes=/usr/share/qt3/include, --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib in any combination, but without success ;(( I am not new to comiling stuff. I did it a thousand times (on RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and even Slackware), but this problem makes

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 19 September 2003 6:59 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >You can add a "score" line to your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. Scroll >down to the end, there you should find an example. I'm currently using > > score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5 Thanks. I'm trying that and sa-learn --spam. Over

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 05:16, Michael C. wrote: > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out there being

esdrec hangs when esd is running

2003-09-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I need to use an application which uses ESD for both capture and playing of voice (a voice chat enabled YM client for Linux). However I've discovered that ESD based voice capture doesn't work in my system. Tracing down the problem, I'v get to the situation where I run esd on one console,

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Derrick 'dman' Hudson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:04:44PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > | Hi people. > | > | I'm receiving more and more emails with M$ trojan crap. > | I want to get ride of them, but the problem is that I download my emails from >

Re: Big Problem ? With APT-GET Database

2003-09-20 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:40:10 +0200, JL wrote: > Hi, > > After just upgrading woody to testing i ran into this issue that doesn't > go away this time. Whatever i do with apt-get the errormessage below is > shown and this time it isn't fixed by any apt-get or dpkg commands. >From #debian irc on irc

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:50:14 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> > ..putting procmail between these should do this the nice way. >> >> This leaves me with the bandwidth problem. At about 50 messages an hour >> and a 8 kB/s internet connection, this is not fun :-( > > ..huh? GSM? I use 802.11b. ISDN

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Roy Pluschke
On September 20, 2003 04:23 am, Thomas Baumann wrote: > I did try --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, > --with-qt-includes=/usr/share/qt3/include, > --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib in any combination, but without > success ;(( > > I am not new to comiling stuff. I did it a thousand times (on RedHa

Re: Lost sound capabilities (/dev/dsp: No such device)

2003-09-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp ...is missing on your box, mknod it. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Baumann
hi Roy, I think it's all programs that use Qt. Tried three, and all three don't do it. Hmmm, maybe I really should upgrade to sid. I did not do so yet, cause this is my first debian installation (but clean!!) and I didn't want to start with unstable, so that I don't mix my failures with the one

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:08, Walt L. Williams wrote: > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > is increasing exponentially. Well, it seems to have slowed down a little. Yesterday, I received about 11MB i

Re: Too Funny - Outlook Spell Checker

2003-09-20 Thread p
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:25:09AM -0700, Garth Mosher wrote: > Greetings, all -- I'm a debian newbie, up and running > for a whole 3 days now! > > Anyway, at work, they force feed us MS Outlook. I > finished typing an e-mail that mentioned 'debian', and > the spell checker popped up. The first s

RE: No Screens found

2003-09-20 Thread Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel
-Original Message- From: Donald Spoon To: debian user Sent: 9/20/03 10:39 AM Subject: Re: No Screens found The above lines marked (WW) remind me of a similar error message I used to get when I was missing some key fonts packages. I would get a "No Screens Found" error and X wouldn't sta

[no subject]

2003-09-20 Thread Charles Monteforte
WHY CAN'T I OPEN SOME ATTACHMENT IN OUTLOOK EXPRESS?  

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:23:17AM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > Six months ago I switched from testing to unstable because gnome2 in > testing was pretty broken at the time. GNOME 2 should basically work in testing after tonight's mirror sync, as a modern control-center has finally made it. (We're

Re: starting different window managers

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
Robert Epprecht wrote: I prefer the text console over X, whenever it is appropriate. The downside is, that my knowledge about X is very limited. I just installed kde which I use rarely ;-) Now I'm trying to build an box for audio work, where kde is too heavy. So I would like to try out some lightw

Re: EveryBuddy questions (MS update and others)

2003-09-20 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:35:36PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > I've been using EveryBuddy on Debian and RH for at least a year now. The > past couple weeks I've been getting the "MSN Security Team" message "You > need to update or won't be able to use this service" or something to > that effec

More details:: esdrec hangs when esd is running - select function problem?

2003-09-20 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I've done one more test. I've run esd with: $ strace 2>/tmp/debug esd And then I've run on the another console: $ esdrec > /tmp/test.raw Then I've killed esdrec with CTRL+C (after a few seconds). In the /tmp/debug I've found: [...] socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_S

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: OK, but I still have the LinuxOLD entry in my LILO menu. Since I'm running stock kernels, this should be starting my previous kernel anytime. So, I chose the option, and it booted until it had to mount the root fs. There I got a kernel panic: can't mount root fs. (No cle

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:40, Nicos Gollan escribe: > Well, it seems to have slowed down a little. Yesterday, I received about 11MB > in a few hours and "only" 7MB during the last 12h or so. Me too. Lots of meat to train spamassassin. Thank you, whoever!! Regards, Ismael --

Re: tiff less

2003-09-20 Thread Karl Hasselström
On 2003-09-19 08:36:43 +0200, Raul Montagne wrote: > I need to convert a tiff image (or jpg, gif) to a matrix of numbers > (0-256). Matlab and Octave does it. But I want to scriptized the > process, cause I've got a lot of images to convert. Octave does scripting. Just write a series of octave co

Re: Not able to compile Qt-Apps

2003-09-20 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Sa, 2003-09-20 um 13.23 schrieb Thomas Baumann: > I did try --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3, > --with-qt-includes=/usr/share/qt3/include, > --with-qt-libraries=/usr/share/qt3/lib in any combination, but without > success ;(( You can get a QT-depending debian source packet with apt-get sou

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 September 2003 7:31 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: >On Friday 19 September 2003 6:59 pm, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >>You can add a "score" line to your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. Scroll >>down to the end, there you should find an example. I'm currently using >> >> score MICROSOFT_EX

Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard

2003-09-20 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:07:36PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Any attempt to load parport_pc (or the combination of parport, lp, and > parport_pc) by hand fails, and gives the usual: > > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ para

tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

2003-09-20 Thread martin f krafft
hdparm can make the difference between an IDE harddrive and something connected to the IDE bus which is about as fast as if I'd type the bits by hand. I am down with that, and my IDE drives are at paramount speeds. I also have an IDE drive in a special bracket that connects via the USB bus and usb

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-20 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Russell Shaw > >>Also, put an official "testing" source into sources.list too. > For testing: >deb ftp://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free But I still cannot get XFree 4.3 into my Debian, look: X -version This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported

Re: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2003-09-20 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The docs aren't very prescriptive and the new versign-blocker isn't > documented at all, so here's what I did. > > 1. If you're running Woody or Sid, you'll have dhcp-client. DnsMasq recommends > resolvconf, and dhcp3-client or dhcpcd or ... It's a whole kettle of fish.

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 02:31, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:58:25 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does that prevent the emails from being downloaded from the ISP's > > > pop3 server in the 1st place?

Realtek 8139C and Kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-20 Thread devotion
Hi. I have very recently installed the Debian 3.0r1 Linux cd, using default kernel that comes with it, the 2.2.20idepci. I am using adsl, whose modem is connected to my only NIC, a Realtek 8139C (not C+, i see 8139C on the chip), and the realtek 8139C driver (8139too.o) detected 2 network interf

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-20 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Why not try: "dvd+rw-tools" (debian packaged, reportedly has >> better support for +RW than even cdrecord-prodvd)? > >I use cdrecord-prodvd. >It's definitely not Free software, but damn it it works. I prefer dfsg-compliant, but I

IAB Statement on DNS Wildcards

2003-09-20 Thread moseley
http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html "Proposed guideline: If you want to use wildcards in your zone and understand the risks, go ahead, but only do so with the informed consent of the entities that are delegated within your zone." -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slrn

2003-09-20 Thread Michael C.
In linux.debian.user, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > > Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, > > are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. > > > > I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that lo

Man page issue

2003-09-20 Thread Anonymous
I installed the uisp package in Debian stable. I did 'man uisp' and was given the undocumented(7) man page, which asked me not to report the lack of man page as a bug. However, the uisp tarball, in the same version as the one in Debian stable, does come with a man page. The package just doesn't

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Joey Hess
Ron Johnson wrote: > Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- > ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net > down to your PC. Why would I trust my ISP with something as important as my email? -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Carla Schroder
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:58 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > > that look like there from M

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread csj
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, Michael C. wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out t

Re: No Screens found

2003-09-20 Thread Donald Spoon
Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: -Original Message- From: Donald Spoon To: debian user Sent: 9/20/03 10:39 AM Subject: Re: No Screens found The above lines marked (WW) remind me of a similar error message I used to get when I was missing some key fonts packages. I would get a "No Screens Fou

Procmail logging

2003-09-20 Thread David List
Is it possible to get procmail to tell in its logfile which recipe that was triggered by every mail that is being logged? Best regards, David List -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Man page issue

2003-09-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:51:45AM -0700, Anonymous wrote: > I installed the uisp package in Debian stable. > > I did 'man uisp' and was given the undocumented(7) man > page, which asked me not to report the lack of man > page as a bug. > > However, the uisp tarball, in the same version as the

NFS max file size??

2003-09-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I need to copy files over 2GB over a NFS share, but it seems to be limited to 2GB 8-? The computer sharing the directory uses woody, and the file system is ReiserFS... TIA ;) - -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain Jabber, Yahoo & AIM: quini2k

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > is increasing exponenti

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- > ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net > down to your PC. Uhm, no. You're operating under the assumption everyone lets their ISP h

colours of the printer

2003-09-20 Thread Christine Hawksworth
i could use your help that if this is what you deal with - when i print out using colour some of the colours are not printing out eg red/yellow and when i try to print colour words they are not in the right order - it was fine before

strangeness with bind

2003-09-20 Thread Thomas Stivers
I have upgraded to the latest bind9 with apt-get and it is acting strangely. I have not changed the allocation-only lines in /etc/bind/named.conf, but it seems that I cannot access sites which use akadns such as google in the usual way. Here is the log entry I get when I try and go to www.google.co

Kernel Image and PPP packages with MPPE support for PPTP

2003-09-20 Thread Darik Horn
(J'ai CC'd la liste debian-user-french par demande. Je ne parle pas francais, cependant.) I am providing kernel-image and ppp packages for Debian/woody with a Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption ("MPPE") module for the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol ("PPTP"). ... Step 1. Add these lines

Re: change $PATH system-wide?

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
[loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >David Morse wrote: > >>I would like to add /usr/yokel/bin to my PATH system-wide. I can't find > >>what config file to use. /etc/profile doesn't do it. > >As far as I know /etc/profile is read by all Bourne Shell derivatives if > >you star

Re: Recommended free secondary DNS?

2003-09-20 Thread cls-du
>> Can someone recommend any free secondary DNS services? >> I've used Granite Canyon but need others. Granite Canyon can be tricky. I've found NS2 doesn't work, for years and years and years, but they require it be "advertised" in an NS record. Therefore: 1. Put NS1 in your domain registration

Re: /etc/aliases

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Karsten M. Self wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Here's my list of aliases. Do any processes/applications send to these > > > > addresses? > > My "problem" is that those aliases are well known. So the spammers > > are now using those addresses for both sending

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Michael C.
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:30:16 +0200, csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > Michael C. wrote: > > > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > >

libpthreads problem in testing

2003-09-20 Thread Deryk Barker
I upgrade my system last night (I'm running testing) and this morning I note that any program wanting to use the pthreads library failes with: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libpthread.so.0: invalid ELF header I've just tried another upgrade and there seems to be no fi

More on libpthread problem

2003-09-20 Thread Deryk Barker
A little more investigation shows that /lib/libpthread.so.0 is a link to /lib/pthread-0.10.so, which is not a library, as expexcted, but an ASCII text file containing the following: /* GNU ld script Use the shared library, but some functions are only in the static library, so try that secondarily.

Final note on libpthreads

2003-09-20 Thread Deryk Barker
Fortunately I had a backup up copy of /lib/libpthreads-0.10.so when I copied that back into /lib everything was OK again. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL P

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:08:42PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote: > > Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails > > that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming > > is increasing exponentially. > > > > Any sugges

Re: Backporting debhelper

2003-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El jueves, 14 de agosto de 2003, a las 18:23, Bob Proulx escribe: > So if I modify the control file such as to reduce the debhelper > version dependency then I also modify the version number. > > [...] > > Really any valid methodology would work. Something like this would be > fine too. As long

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-20 Thread JAMES MERRITT
Try SCILAB. It is very much like Matlab and it is free. James E. Merritt - Original Message - Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a equation system resolver in debian or linux in general? > Basicly, I need to resolv equation systems or simplify very long and > complica

Re: xfree86 security update overwrites XF86Config-4

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Geoff Thurman wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > I just want to say... ARRRGHHH! > > Yes, this happened to me too; my mouse dropped out. Put me in that list too. I took the xserver-xfree86 security update and sure enough this fluffed the file and the edits in that section were lost. But this i

RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Kent West
I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. I can manually run rp8 and watch realplayer files/etc, but some sites ( some new IBM Linux videos - http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/# ) seem to require the plugin functionality. Anyone know

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-20 Thread tb . nospam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:20:03AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Why not try: "dvd+rw-tools" (debian packaged, reportedly has > >> better support for +RW than even cdrecord-prodvd)? > > > >I use cdrecord-prodvd. > >It's definitel

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Smith wrote: > Daniel B. writes: > db> Paul Smith wrote: > >> .. If you're using a graphical login manager like GDM or > >> XDM, then these methods of login never actually invoke a login shell, > db> Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your > db> login-time shell init

Re: Not-so-strange question about bind

2003-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
El viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2003, a las 18:57, Stefan Waidele jun. escribe: > I am not a networking-guru, but I would think that if you would tell us > what you want to do (not technicaly, but what you want to archive), > someone might come up with another way to do it. I will try to "draw th

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread David Z Maze
Manuel Bilderbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A couple of days ago, I installed these packages from sid: > lm-sensors-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 > i2c-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 > > I have done this before many times, to save myself the trouble of > compiling these kernel modules myself. I'm running a tes

Re: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2003-09-20 Thread tb . nospam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:27:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The docs aren't very prescriptive and the new versign-blocker isn't > > documented at all, so here's what I did. > > > > 1. If you're running Woody or Sid, you'll have dhcp-client. DnsMasq recommends > > res

Re: RealPlayer 8 plugin for Moz

2003-09-20 Thread Donald Spoon
Kent West wrote: I have RealPlayer8 installed, but I can't seem to get it to act as a plugin for Mozilla. I can manually run rp8 and watch realplayer files/etc, but some sites ( some new IBM Linux videos - http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/# ) seem to require the plugin functionali

Re: No sourcing of ~/.profile at login

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ashish Ariga wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: > > Why not? (Why shouldn't logging in via GDM execute your login-time > > shell initialization?) Xsession does not know what syntax your shell is going to want. And $HOME/.xsession is a more general purpose way of doing it. > That's the default behaviour.

Re: Intel 10/100 VE and eepro100

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Perrin wrote: > Unfortunately, I tried 2.4bf with no luck. It includes eepro100, which > fails, but not e100 (as far as I could tell). The e100 shows up in (at least) the 2.4.20 and later kernels. It is a module and you would need to load it in /etc/modules. The 2.4.18 kernel did not have

Re: can't make debconf handle X-config

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin McKinley wrote: > Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I make debconf handle the X-configuration? > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common > It's the first question. For me as well. But perhaps it is a lower priority debconf question? Perhaps your debconf priority is set too low to

Re: No screens found

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
> >dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low --frontend=dialog xserver-xfree86 Try turning off the framebuffer. That is a typical workaround. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

modconf under 2.6.0-testn

2003-09-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I have been unable to get modconf to work under 2.6.0-test2 or -test4. The program runs, but shows only the "exit" option, with no modules displayed for selecting. Has anyone else seen this sort of problem,and if, any suggestions? nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: strange 8139too problem/question

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul William wrote: > I went through the woody installation. I installed the 2.4.18-bf kernel > and when I got to the part of the install where you select kernel > modules the 8139too (realtek 8139 NIC driver) was not there?!?! The 8139too driver is compiled into the bf24 kernel series. But it is

xinetd secondary addresses and ports

2003-09-20 Thread Jan de Haan
Hi All, want to run several instances of the same application (apache, sshd, whatever...) with different configurations on separated secondary addresses with their original port numbers (e.g. eth0:1 192.168.123.1:80 httpd www.acme.com and eth0:2 172.16.1.1:80 httpd www.whitehouse.gov) Thi

Re: Bind9 patches? (Was: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy)

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley wrote: > I might have missed a post but is there a plan to update bind9 in > stable with the bind9 patch for dns wild-carding? It's not really a > security issue, but a worthwhile[1] patch, IMHO. Use LaMont's backport area. I think Joey posted it earlier too. # BIND, packit, po

is the tty serial layer working in 2.6.0-testx?

2003-09-20 Thread Neal Lippman
I have run into another problem with 2.6.0-test2 and -test4. I use a Pilot M505 which I have always synced using the serial port (I never got around to getting it connected via USB). This has worked fine under the 2.4.x series, but does not work now that I have started using 2.6.0-test2 and -test4

Re: With newer chipsets, is ECC memory slower ? Worth the penalty ?

2003-09-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul McHale wrote: > I have always heard ECC memory is more reliable, but there is a performance > penalty. Crucial.com estimates the penalty to be 10% to 15%. That's a lot. Negative. My own memory test benchmarks using a (cough) windows based test program shows only a 1%-2% speed degradation.

Debian

2003-09-20 Thread gerald simpkin
I checked to see if I could turn off the html characteristics of the email sent when using free yahoo email. I could not find a configuration tool to send this in plain text so I am sorry in advance about this email. What I am most concerned about is getting help with the Debian problem I describe

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:56:10 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ummm, the pop server that stores your email until you press what- ever key in your MUA that fetches the email from pop..net down to your PC. Uhm, no. You're operating under the assumption everyone let

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