Re: gdm setup returns error

Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: gdm installation in sid returns error code (1). gdm works fine though. Siddhesh. You probably want to report that to bugs.debian.org, rather than posting it to the mailing list. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

re- re- xwindows

steef wrote: > .hey out there, > > can somebody tell me how come: > > - installing woody_kernelvariant bf2.4; taskel does not give the possibility to install Xwindows a f t e r having installed debian security packages. so apt cannot get the Xwindowspackages from the (ftp) server. > > w

Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 08:19, Charles Forelle wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm in the midst of my first ever installation of Debian and I'm having > trouble with the graphical interface. I've completed the process (installing > the bf2.4 flavor with only desktop environment picked in tasksel -- I chose

bl question

......I worked earlier with grub (on caldera-distro's). debian 3.0 (woody0 works fine with lilo and gives during the install process all the choices you need, ch., steef Subject: boot loader question From: Jason Housewright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:05:10 -0700

Re: Replace HDD

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:00:44 -0600, Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Joyce, Matthew wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have an old pc running Debian Woody and I have 2 questions. >> >> Firstly, the hard drive ios quite old and become quite noisy, I suspect it >> is on the way out. What is the easi

Freed disc space.

I don't know if anyone is interested, but I downloaded sylpheed-claws last night, and to install I had to trade off on some dependencies. Libpspell4, I think it was that was needed, but to install it, I had to uninstall all of the Koffice suite, abiword-common and gnome, Gnome itself and gnome ba

Re: boot loader question

Debian doesn't lock you to any one boot loader. You can apt-get lilo or apt-get grub and you'll have the one of your choice! Naitik. On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Jason Housewright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > q

Re: Root path question

One possibility might be the fact that when you su, I believe .bashrc gets executed, and .bash_profile does not, as it isn't a login shell. Whereas when you login (or alternatively do: su -c "bash --login" ) .bash_profile gets run. So depending on the paths each of these set, your path could pos

Re: boot loader question

On (03/10/03 23:05), Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > question about the boot loader. I have used grub for > quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, > and if one is preferred over the other, is it > difficult to switc

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Re: boot loader question

On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:30:15 +0200, Jason Housewright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > question about the boot loader. I have used grub for > quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, > and if one is preferred o

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A! > > I don't care if Linux has 90% desktop share, there's no way that an > auto-running (or double-click-needing) email virus is going to aff- > ect me, unless the people who write the MUA that I happen to be using > at

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Divendres 03 Octubre 2003 23:11, en S. Loisel va escriure: > Starting from Knoppix 3.3, apt-get update && apt-get upgrade does > something reasonable looking, but apt-get dist-upgrade downloads > hundreds of megabytes, uninstalls most of my OS, and

Re: [OT] kernel versioning: extra suffixes

Thanks for the reply Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:54:25PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: where can we find the meaning of the extra suffixes for the kernel vesrioning (e.g, -ac, -preN, -bkN) ? Not sure that there's even a canonical list, or that there would need to be since these

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

In linux.debian.user, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've started a virus infected hosts list that is net-lsearchable. > It's available at http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ and is updated when I get > more virus infected email or requests for removal. If I get a lot of > interest, I might ma

Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

In linux.debian.user, Charles Forelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm in the midst of my first ever installation of Debian and I'm having > trouble with the graphical interface. I've completed the process (installing > the bf2.4 flavor with only desktop environment picked in t

Knoppix as a debian cd

Hi! I have woody installed in my home computer but i want to try a more up to date apps such as newer gnome ,kde and 00. Problem is i dont have broadband so downloading is out of the question. Is it possible to get packages from a knoppix cd? I heard its debian based so maybe the packages are debs,

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:43:42AM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > In linux.debian.user, > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've started a virus infected hosts list that is net-lsearchable. > > It's available at http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ and is updated when I get > > more virus infected ema

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:43:42AM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > You realize of course that probably 60-70% are dynamic IPs. For example: > > 212.216.176.206 212.216.176.221 212.216.176.222 212.216.176.223 > 212.216.176.224 212.227.126.251 > > Are probab

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:19:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > You realize of course that probably 60-70% are dynamic IPs. > > And why exactly are people sending mail from dynamic IPs rather than > using their ISP's smarthost or similar? I only se

Re: Root path question

> Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 10:47]: > > One possibility might be the fact that when you su, I believe > .bashrc gets executed, and .bash_profile does not, as it isn't a > login shell. Whereas when you login (or alternatively do: su -c > "bash --login" ) .bash_profile gets run. So

Mutt with evolution

Hi, Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would like to know if it is possible for mutt to use the mail boxes of Evolution. For a few months I would like to use mutt remotely. But when I get back, I w

Re: rpm packages - alien

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Linux Expo

Hi,   Is it true that there's upcomming event for linux expo in the philippines. pls gimme some feed back about this. im linux users to.     Romel    

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installing unstable package in woody

Hi, There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to install on a woody system. I do not think there will be any dependency problems. Is this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install a testing package on woody? Cheers Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

apt broken

Hi all, I have got problems with dselect after two week of leaving my Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) alone. Now, it warns a lot of dependency issues. I have to go to the ftp server and download the files and manually use "dpkg -i" to install it. The below commands do not help: apt-get updat

Re: Mutt with evolution

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > > Hi, > > Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using > Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would > like to know if it is possible for mutt to use the mail boxes of > Evolution.

Re: Knoppix as a debian cd

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:27:37AM -0700, ralph bacolod wrote: > Hi! I have woody installed in my home computer but i > want to try a more up to date apps such as newer gnome > ,kde and 00. Problem is i dont have broadband so > downloading is out of the question. > Is it possible to get packages fr

Re: installing unstable package in woody

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:18AM +1200, Paul William wrote: > There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to install on > a woody system. I do not think there will be any dependency problems. Is > this possible? Will dpkg allow me to install a testing package on woody? dpkg is com

Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock 3.0r1 kernel (2.2.20-idepci). I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm). Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I h

What filesystem for no-halt boot?

I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it. Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y after a power failure or such. Now one of my servers (little P1) is quite a drive from me and stuck behind a cabinet. It gets rebooted quite a lot. And I had to drive

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:06, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fet

Re: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:27:13 -0400, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100, > >>"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAI

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:28, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > > hardware

Re: spamassassin: recent process slowdown ???

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 01:53, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Since the end of last week, spamd processing time per message has gone > from ~6 seconds to >30 seconds. > > I am not clear whether or not any recent upgrades have changed > spamassassin. > > I did not, at first, attribute my mail processing

Re: boot loader question

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:05, Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > question about the boot loader. I have used grub for > quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, > and if one is preferred over the other, is it > difficult

PPPoE problem with kernel 2.4

Hi. I have been having problems with authenticating with my ADSL provider when i use kernel 2.4. When i use Kernel 2.2, (idepci, the default kernel of the debian 3.0r1 distribution), it works fine... The kernel is the 2.4.22, compiled using the debian default procedures, with PPP/BS

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:25, Danie Roux wrote: > I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it. > > Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y > after a power failure or such. > > Now one of my servers (little P1) is quite a drive from me and stuck > behin

Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

Hello everybody, I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting and auto indenting on C files... But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. How can I turn it off for one session - or even better, for all html files ? Thanks for your help!! Joris = __

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

Hello all, The best thing in my opinion is procmail, just add these lines to your .procmailrc file, and all will be WAY better. Make sure you have your ~/.forward file forwarding to procmail. hope you all get it fixed...this worked for me! -Shane ###*My procmailrc file*### MAILD

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:10, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting and > auto indenting on C files... > But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. How > can I turn it off for one session - or even better, > for all html files ? :set n

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Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it. > >Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y >after a power failure or such. > >If I read S10checkroot.sh correctly, if I specify an envir

Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500, "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock 3.0r1 kernel > (2.2.20-idepci). > I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. > > While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse

Re: spamassassin: recent process slowdown ???

Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:09:51:00-0400] scribed: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 01:53, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > Since the end of last week, spamd processing time per message has gone > > from ~6 seconds to >30 seconds. > > > > I am not clear whether or not any recent upgrades have

newbie installation problems: to charles

Hi charles, had the same problem i guess. what did i do to to resove it? a f t e r installation of bf24, woody asks you to log in. so log in as root. then do: apt-get install xserver-xfree86 and, after that to prevent that you only can log in with gdm: apt-get install kdm (or xdm) fol

Re: logins and logouts hang

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:00:11PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > If you don't hear anything more in this thread, assume this did the trick. :) Well, I only put off the inevitable-- I ended up having to buy a new power supply. But I'm keeping that extra exhaust fan, 'cause you can never have t

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot

Hi Alvin, On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:02:35PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > lilo.conf looks correct for boot= and root= > ( "correct" == the way i do it and works for me ) > - nothing wrong with lilo.conf > > - other last issue is that is just a dumb lilo problem > and nothing to do with ra

Re: Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

Michael, Thanks. I ran xf86config as you suggested, selecting the generic video card option since I didn't see mine (Intel chipset 82810E) in the list. (I checked XF86Config file, and it just put vga in for the driver. I tried startx 'which twm' This is what I got back: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/

Re: installing unstable package in woody

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:54:14 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:12:18AM +1200, Paul William wrote: > > There is an unstable/testing package (firehol) that I need to > > install on a woody system. I do not think there will be

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

In linux.debian.user, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:43:42AM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > > You realize of course that probably 60-70% are dynamic IPs. For example: > > > > 212.216.176.206 212.216.176.221

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

Paul Mackinney lied: > Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu Well that was a rather sloppy reply, wasn't it? Steeped in humiliation, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:35:17PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > I have always pulled the files back off of my linux server to a Mac, > created an ISO of the files and then burned from wherever. You may find > that it is easiest if you burned or at least mastered all the files from > a Mac.

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

Rich Johnson wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Everytime I think about this thread or any boast about uptime one question comes into my mind: Are these machines on trusted networks with trusted users, or do people really get lucky and pick or compile a ker

making a disk image

Hi, I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ 1 + 1 = 10

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Tommorrow someone else will be assigned those same IPs and you'll be blocking them even if they were never vulnerable to begin with. If it's a problem, they email me, and I pull the IP. So you're just keeping a list of problem IP's and accepting additional traf

Limiting access to website ???

We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to secure transactions. We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have username/password authentication; but, we are also considering host-based limits. Can this be done with [mod_]ssl? Can access to a website require a c

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:10, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting > and > > auto indenting on C files... > > But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. > How > > can I turn it off for

Re: ppp daemon ip-up.d perm +

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:06:57PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi, Permissions of ip-up.d: > deblnx:/home/john# ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > total 28 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1306 Apr 25 2002 00-ipppd > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 962 Apr 2 2002 000usepeerdns > -rwxr-xr-x1

Re: pppd daemon

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:35:03PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Yeah I knew I left ping on too long..I wasn't sure if it exited on its > own. I'm wondering if the exit status isn't the result of my finally > doing ctrl-c ? Nono, what you do with ping won't affect the exit status of /etc/ppp/ip-up. > Anyw

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:06:31PM +, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, re

Re: making a disk image

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:46, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up > my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more information. Yo

Re: making a disk image

> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img > or cat /dev/fd0 > filename.img will work just as nicely Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just V

Re: dangling symlink?

On 04 Oct 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. > > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system > > whose effects are so trivial and harm

SED problem

I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code between and Including the above comments. I have tried, played with N, d substitution to

Re: Holy Spam!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get > posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. You don't need to subscribe to be able to post. > I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. > Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. Apart

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

Vineet Kumar declaimed: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 16:00]: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > > D

Re: Ruby and Emacs support problem

Sadly, it didn't work. Whenever I do load a ruby file I do get the message: "Loading inf-ruby...done". But I get no syntax highlighting. I can't debug the program through xemacs either. How did you get your mode to work that wasn't working before? On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:51:12PM -0400, Bij

Thank you Jan, Michael C. and steef...

...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.)   But all is well now.   Thanks,   Charles.

high load but no cpu usage

Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously - nothing has changed. I have already tried to see if there are any processes blocking usi

Re: high load but no cpu usage

> Hi, > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? > What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously > - nothing h

Re: USB mouse under X not working

No, i finally figured it out, and i thought i'd post the reasons so others running into this can find a solution without being at for days like me. First i thought i messed something up with a dist-upgrade so i decided to do a completely fresh install, sigh, and of course it turned out that wasn't

Re: high load but no cpu usage

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:44, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. > > This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? Thats what I thought but thi

Re: Network attached storage and backup

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > [snip] > > Specifics. We need much more. > > How much performance do you need? I.e., how many users will be > hitting it at the same time, what kind of apps run on the box, etc? Just me. Maybe myself and one other user. I don't need a lot of performanc

antispam, sylpheed?

Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me that don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client that have a plug-in for spamassassin and other to use one antivirus. Have someone tried it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > Hello everybody, > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting and > auto indenting on C files... > But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. How > can I turn it off for one session - or even better, > for all html files ? > > Thanks for y

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > secure transactions. > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > username/password authentication; but, we are also considering > host-based limits. > > Can this

Re: making a disk image

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:08:31AM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote: > > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img Thanks, that worked! :) -- Vikki

Re: system reboots before booting

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:28, David Fokkema wrote: > Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand > is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on > different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean > nothing... It means nothin

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:46:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > A! > > I don't care if Linux has 90% desktop share, there's no way that an > auto-running (or double-click-needing) email virus is going to aff- > ect me, unless the people who write the MUA that I happen to be using > at the time

frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

>= Original Message From Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > >Building Debian packages is relatively straightforward. Just 'apt-get >install dpkg-dev' > >This will give you all the necessary package building tools. I did that. So far, so good. >Then, as I said before, just untar the

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:50:39PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > secure transactions. > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > username/password authentication; but, we are also considering > host-based

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:15:02:38-0400] scribed: > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > > secure transactions. > > > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > > username/password authen

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me that > don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client > that have a plug-in for spamassassin and other to use one antivirus. > Have someo

Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

In linux.debian.user, Charles Forelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks. I ran xf86config as you suggested, selecting the generic video card > option since I didn't see mine (Intel chipset 82810E) in the list. (I > checked XF86Config file, and it just put vga in for the driver.

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:13, Ed Lawson wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > >Thanks very much for the heads up about the madwifi project. I just went > >out and picked up a Linksys 802.11A+G PCMCIA card for my laptop, and > >after a bit of fiddling, got it up and running. It's working great! >

freedom of debian

Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this next question... Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my ex

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install it, but I can't upgrade as the packages are kept back. I would surmise they require

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:12:31:02-0700] scribed: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:50:39PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > > secure transactions. > > > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we ha

Re: Thank you Jan, Michael C. and steef...

In linux.debian.user, Charles Forelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use > apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't > installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.) What package(s)

Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check it again, but: # apt

re re re xwindows_problem

you 're welcome, steef ...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.) But all is well now. Thanks, Charles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Stefan Karrmann wrote: Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:40:46 -0300 klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me > that > > don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What am I missing? > > I have read this: > > > > As I responded to Aaron's message, we are looking for some kind of > passive authentication, like an SSL Certificate. The mod_

Incomplete manpage in pkg "ifupdown" on Woody

Hello Users of Debian, I spent several weeks visiting and revisiting the issue of how to configure my laptop's network setup and have noticed that something always seemed to be missing. What I discovered finally was that indeed something has been: on stable (Woody) the manpage for the base pack

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > As I responded to Aaron's message, we are looking for some kind of > passive authentication, like an SSL Certificate. > > We do not want to have to rely on humans remembering another > username/password, especially since the web

A note of thanks

About a week ago, I sent a number of postings to this site about my difficulties in installing woody. Thanks to a number of helpful respondents, I now have a working debian woody, including a usb printer. I am impressed by the quality of this distribution and believe that a good installation guide

Re: how to use two HDDs in one external IEEE1394 case

hi funky, On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:35:34 +0200 funky soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just bought an external harddisk case from Roline > which is designed for two HDDs. after playing around with the modules, hotplug > and rescan-scs-bus.sh i'm able to access one HDD but i cannot detect/access >

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