Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-07 Thread David Millet
so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master (hda) and put in a new drive as slave (hdb) which i installed debian is. i can boot flaw

Re: Lynx vs xli

2003-11-07 Thread aahz
Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> According to what I've found in Google, bug 4918 has been fixed for >> years. But I can't get Lynx to recognize either XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND or >> VIEWER to change from ImageMagick to xli as th

Re: Problem in installing nvidia driver

2003-11-07 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, I have read the reply of my questions. Thank you for everyone who help me. I have successfully installed the nvidia kernel. However, the nvidia kernel cannot function properly. I have followed the instruction to update the information in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here is my log file This is

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:34:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: >> >> First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds >> support my nic. Consequently, any suggestions that involve using >> apt-get isn't really help

Re: The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

2003-11-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-06 09:31:35 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Sounds like what you want is better communication with your sysadmin? > > If the sysadmin knows you're using fetchmail and they're good, they'll > let you know if they're going to break your setup. Or they'll warn you > they're making an MTA cha

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Friday 07 November 2003 3:52 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:39:58PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. > > I am on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is > > an SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is this

Sendmail, virtual users and several hosts

2003-11-07 Thread Chris Searle
Have a problem on my debian box that I didn't have when running RedHat (mind you - that was some time ago and we're several versions of sendmail forward). This is running on woody with all security updates and proposed updates applied. The machine has one IP address. This is used for 5 hostnames

Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm not there. As such, they generally will need root access to do it. While I certainly trust

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-07 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 06 November 2003 19:55, Debian User wrote: > I removed gdm, invoked startx, and it launched gnome. I tried to > install kde again, and I receive the following: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed >De

Re: on-screen-all-desktop-log-watch for Gnome2.4

2003-11-07 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hi, On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I reinstalled my Sid box few days ago and switched from sawfish to metacity > and from iso... to utf-8 locales. Now I can't run root-portal, that I used > to use for watch what was happening down inside. Is there any other tool for > watching logf

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alex Malinovich wrote: I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm not there. As such, they generally will need root access to do it. W

X11 display managers and the keyboard

2003-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On a sid system: When I use xdm, gdm or kdm the keyboard does not work in the X11-environment. I can't even log in. I can use startx without a problem and everthing is working OK. Any idea what is causing this? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologi

Sound Card i8x0: Root works, other users NOT

2003-11-07 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
I do not know how, it was giving me a headache to configure my sound card, a buildin Intel 810 from motherboard. I've tried configuring /etc/modules.conf but still hopeless.. :( At the booting process, the ALSA had failed to load module i8x0. But anyway, I log-in as root to GDM and I just realized

Kernels 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test9-1-386

2003-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
I was using a 2.4.20 kernel which I compiled on a sid machine. Just as an experiment I installed today 2.6.0-test9-1-386 and kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 with the following results. With 2.6.0-test9-1-386 the display worked OK but I could not get the mouse working at all. With kernel-image-2.4.22-1

Re: Sound Card i8x0: Root works, other users NOT

2003-11-07 Thread Adam Galant
Check permissions of /dev files. I don't know about ALSA, but with OSS modules you need to add users to group audio (adduser audio) if they should have permissions to use sound card. I guess this will work for ALSA too. Regards, Adam On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > I do not kno

Re: Sound Card i8x0: Root works, other users NOT

2003-11-07 Thread Anthony Le Mansec
On 2003-11-07, Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But anyway, I log-in as root to GDM and I > just realized... my sound card works... (???) But > whenever I switch to normal user, it wont work > again... > Any clues? Is this user in the 'audio' group ? If not, try typing : gpasswd -a

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
YES! Sorry for that, couldn't help it... So I managed to get dpkg back on track. I tried to load the fifth debian cd so as to get access to fsck without having my root partition mounted. Thing is that there is only e2fsck available so I couldn't. Then I realized (and I'm pretty ashamed of it! :) t

Re: F-Prot and Amavis, exim

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Maas
Hi, Thanks for your answer, I rechecked to see if Amavis was sending any responses outside my domain. As far as I can see it does not. I also tried to telnet to 10204 but it was rejected. Actually F-Prot tries several ports, I just limited the log entries I sent to one instance, the whole log loo

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > > have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm >

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/03 04:27), Alex Malinovich wrote: > To: debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:27:01 -0600 > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Alex Malinovich wrote: [snip] > > > So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different > > > users

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Alex Malinovich (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> Alex Malinovich wrote: >> >>> I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a >>> problem that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it >>> necessary to have one of m

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:25:05PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > abiword: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > Version Table: > > 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > >

What have I, sarge or sid ?

2003-11-07 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Hi all! I've just installed woody and changed my sources.list to contain only one entry with a testing link (I did it with netselect-). Still on booting I saw a message saying "Debian GNU testing/unstable". Is this normal, is it only "stable or testing/unstable" or something went wrong ? I only ins

last reminder!

2003-11-07 Thread Bellota Ranch
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Re: What have I, sarge or sid ?

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:09:03AM -0600, Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: > Hi all! I've just installed woody and changed my sources.list to contain > only one entry with a testing link (I did it with netselect- here>). Still on booting I saw a message saying "Debian GNU > testing/unstable". Is this nor

Inverse LCD Screen

2003-11-07 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way to invert an LCD screen in X or console, preferably at least in X if not both. I have an old planar computer with a flat screen that is showing inverted color, in windows, before I had the oppurtunity to clense it, all the color was i

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up [RESOLVED]

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:19:45AM +0800, csj wrote: > OPTFLAGS = ... -I/usr/local/src/linux/include /usr/local/src/linux should be the linux kernel source code. > Why > else would the mplayer developers look for their headers by > default in /usr/include/linux/? /usr/include/linux should be

Backup problem - PLEASE HELP!

2003-11-07 Thread Bjorn Johansson
Hello! When I was using Debian for PPC I managed to get a SFS(Smartfilesystem) module. With this module I could mount SFS partitions. But now, I'm using Debian for Intel and I can't find a SFS module for this. This is very important, because I can't access the SFS partitions from my Amiga sinc

Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote: > Also, how can one get out of the whole x system under Debian? To get back into > text mode? I also haven?t found a method of booting into text. The display manager 'wdm' can be configured to allow users to shutdown, reboot and e

user reboot/shutdown (was Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...)

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote: > That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange > yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as > root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can?t shutdown or reboot > g

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:09:53AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > > > > PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. > > Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! > > > > You know, it

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > david No! Emulating proprietry software is not the future for an open source operating system. -- Jon

Re: What have I, sarge or sid ?

2003-11-07 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
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Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread BruceG
Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat") - I find out that Yahoo pops me into the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't it?) - and had something to do with dynamic DNS users. Questions are: if I go for a

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:15, David Millet wrote: > >> so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank > >> you, thank you, i'll be signing autographs until tuesday), originally > >> it was just my win2000 drive in, i left it in there as the master > >> (hda) and put in a new

Any simple way to add modules w/o recompiling the kernel?

2003-11-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- In expectation of a new palm pilot arriving soon, I need to add two modules to my system: usbserial and visor. What I've done in the past is to do a make menuconfig; select the new modules; make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --revision xx kernel_image; make-kpkg modules_image; cd /usr/src; dpk

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread Mark Maas
Yahoo should not throw stones, for they live in a glass house... In other words: They have there own users spamming the rest of the world. They should stop that first - Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 0

2 Server in leafnode

2003-11-07 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i think about to put a second news server in my leafnode. But I have two Questions before I do that. 1: What server is leafnode using, if the group is on both servers. 2: How can I get leafnode to fetch the list of the new server. - -- MfG usw

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi Mark, * Mark Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031107 18:32]: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:34:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >I would suggest (modestly?) that you read "Kent's 10-Step Procedure to > >Compiling a Debian Kernel", which is the bottom section of "README.gz" > >in /usr/share/doc/kernel-pa

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold > (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat") - I find out that Yahoo pops me into > the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't it?) - > and had something to do with dynamic DNS users. Yeah, i think it was

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
BruceG wrote: Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat") - I find out that Yahoo pops me into the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't it?) - and had something to do with dynamic DNS users. Questions are:

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread HdV
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Geoff Thurman wrote: > Hello all, > > Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. I am > on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is an > SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is this normal? I have tried to put my mind at > rest by reading the man pages

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:04:31AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold > (fancy talk for "wha wha whaat") - I find out that Yahoo pops me into > the Spam block list. I know this was talked about recently (wasn't it?) - > and had somet

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread Greg Norris
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:58:26AM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > Thank you. This is a great relief, particularly coming, as it does, from > such an authoritative source. I now understand the man pages a bit > better, too. I have still removed the ssh package though, on the basis > that I don't u

Sarge release date

2003-11-07 Thread Ralph Bacolod
Hi! When is sarge release date? Would I still be able to install to install debian in a minimal spec system such as a pentium with only 32 mb ram? Rafiks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Benedict Verheyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS) > > Okay, I'm happily e-mailing away to friends and family, and lo and behold > > (fanc

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > OTOH: Yesterday I was told by Linux folks that the sound problems on > > Linux that I have from time to time might need a simple rest

Re: Kernels 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test9-1-386

2003-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:06:19PM +0100, jjluza wrote: > look at this : > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1587 Thanks Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the lif

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > > > david > > No! Emulating proprietry softwa

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "ScruLoose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 21:47 Subject: Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help In linux or windows I dont qualify as smart but I have some experience with this subject. I t

Fw: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-07 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:39 AM Subject: Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS) > > - Original Message - > From: "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User"

Re: efax - SOLVED

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:08, Robert Story wrote: > > I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it > > seems reasonably clear enough. > > > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an > > individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax mo

ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd) - Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:36, BruceG wrote: > Okay, I've got exim working. Courier-imap is working well, and messages are > popping into folders. I decided to try ClamAV, and am running into trouble. > > I installed clamav, clamav-daemon and amavis-new. I can run a clamscan from > the command promp

Re: An apology

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 23:30, Mark Healey wrote: > I've been having quite a bit of trouble getting a debian system > installed. Because it wasn't nearly as easy as I was told I've been > getting quite petulant and taken it out on people who've been nothing > but helpful. If you want a "smoother" D

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm > not there. As such

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-07 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "David Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 23:40 Subject: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl > so i just finished my first successful installation of debian (thank > you, tha

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > > have one of my roommates do so

exim: having spamassassin not check virus mail

2003-11-07 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i want to optimize the way my exim4,spamassasin and amavis setup works. These are the things that go wrong for the moment 1. Spamassassin checks virus mail: Below is an excerpt from the email headers from a virus mail. My exim config is also down there. Even while it's a virus, spamassassin s

help: email server

2003-11-07 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I need some help from the list! I am in charge of a pos-graduate program and I need to set a server to host the following stuff: a) the Program web page b) the Program email account c) the students email accounts d) webmail a) b) c) should be accesible from the Institution's intranet and

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > So, yes: It seems it makes some sense what the RedHat chief executive > > said. > > If your brother or sister starts a new venture, you wouldn't use the local > newspaper to say that their ve

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:22:18AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Consider the following when windows is mounted on the linux system it > is just a file on a directory (mnt/windows) windows isnt running! > Should you write a file to /mnt/windows there is nothing to check for > free space, nothing to r

Re: Sarge release date

2003-11-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:10:56 -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > Hi! When is sarge release date? When it is ready. For more information, follow the debian-release list and http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ . This really ought to be in the FAQ. Ray -- "Perhaps they spent some of the time w

Bridge-utils e iptables

2003-11-07 Thread Massimo Villa
Sorry; but I'm trying to use iptables with bridge-utils but Iptables doesn't work. I know that for using Iptables with bridge-utils there's a patch for kernel til 2.4.19 but I have 2.4.22. How can I resove this problem? thanks max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Mounting Debian on SATA+Raid 0

2003-11-07 Thread Franck Le Gall
Hello, I have look for the answer on the web but didn't find anything really relevant. If I missed something, thanks to give me the link. Here is my question : I have a motherboard P4C800-E-DLX with the ICH5-R chipset from intel. I have 2 SATA harddrives (80G Maxtor) mounted as raid

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:34:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: This is more out of curiosity than anything else but is there a way to check what features are incorperated into a running kernel. Sort of. In /boot you should have a config file that matches your kernel. For example, I'm c

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:19:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more > > would you give up to them by telling them the root password? For a home > > computer, I don't see much re

Re: X11 display managers and the keyboard

2003-11-07 Thread Kent West
Johann Spies wrote: On a sid system: When I use xdm, gdm or kdm the keyboard does not work in the X11-environment. I can't even log in. I can use startx without a problem and everthing is working OK. I would try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" (or is it "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common"?) an

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-07 Thread Kent West
Papadopoulos Alexis wrote: I remembered that I had the suse's 8.1 CDs here and that it supported ReiserFS (actually it was the one proposed by default). So I booted with them, typed reiserfsck --rebuil-tree /dev/hda5 and voila. I still got the errors from dpkg but it didn't stop, it continued the

Re: Any simple way to add modules w/o recompiling the kernel?

2003-11-07 Thread Miernik
On 2003-11-07, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > even on my moderately fast machine. Is there some shortcut for adding > modules to an installation whose kernel structure will stay basically the > same? Look at package ccache I use it, and it caches compiling, so compiling the same kerne

Re: icewm problems - Mostly Solved

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:41:00PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > After a recent massive testing dist-upgrade (128 upgraded, 8 newly > installed and 60 removed) I have had problems getting icewm to work as > it used to. The 60 packages that were removed are almost all kde > packages and one o

Re: help: email server

2003-11-07 Thread Miernik
On 2003-11-07, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Where can I start to read about this? apt-get install doc-linux-text /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-text/ > 2) Can I use Debian or FreeSDB is better? On this list you'll probably get an anwser that Debian, but bear in mind that the t

Re: Mounting Debian on SATA+Raid 0

2003-11-07 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I don't know whether this will help, but here goes. I have a Gateway 700CX computer with SATA Maxtor drive 160 GB. I found the best way to install Debian on this was to get Knoppix 3.3 cd from Cheapbytes. It seemed to recognize the hard drive. I installed knoppix on the hard-drive u

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:19:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more > > > would you give up to them by telling them the

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Tom
* [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The all-privilege sudo is the best idea, since the actions are > > audited. > > Though note that the auditing is there to keep the honest honest--surely > the audit trail isn't truly secure against an user with "all-privilege > sudo".

Re: X11 display managers and the keyboard

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:10, Kent West wrote: > Johann Spies wrote: > > On a sid system: > > > > When I use xdm, gdm or kdm the keyboard does not work in the > > X11-environment. I can't even log in. I can use startx without a > > problem and everthing is working OK. > > > > I would try "dpkg-

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Have you read any of the below? > > > > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/index-apt-get-intro.html > > /usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/apt-get-intro/apt-and-in

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefu

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Mental Patient
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more would you give up to them by telling them the root password? For a home computer, I don't see much reason not to just stick the root password on a post-it n

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-07 Thread bob parker
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:21, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote: > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > > > >is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > > >identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites > > >the MSIE identifica

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:11, Mark Healey wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:34:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >Mark Healey wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > >> > >> First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds > >> support my nic. Consequently, a

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Friday 07 November 2003 1:10 pm, Greg Norris wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:58:26AM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > Thank you. This is a great relief, particularly coming, as it does, > > from such an authoritative source. I now understand the man pages a > > bit better, too. I have still r

linux.bin - 2.2 vs. bf24 tftp-pxe-bpbatch

2003-11-07 Thread wilhelm.moser
hello, I'm really in trouble. With RedHat I was accustomed to vmlinuz/initrd with http://ks.cfg (kickstart) With Debian-woody I tried all linux.bin's to find the only working one the idepci. # bpbatch linuxboot "linux.bin" "" "root.bin" Trying the same with the bf24 kernel gives some invalid com

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Friday 07 November 2003 1:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Forgive me if this is cretinous beyond compare, but I am confused. > > I am on a standalone machine, and never use SSH, and yet there is > > an SSH-agent in my /tmp. Is thi

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > I read the word(s) "single-use" in the subject line as "one-time use". So did I. Sounds useful. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

duplex printing with lpr

2003-11-07 Thread Roman Stepanyan
Hello all, My question concerns duplex printing using lpr. I thought this is a FAQ but searching the mailing list did not give any results. Basically, I don't understand on which stage it (duplex=on) should be done. My guess was: to do it in a filter like this: in file /etc/filters/filter_laser_

X wont start again

2003-11-07 Thread Hoyt Bailey
X was working fine. I looked at the configuration in the gnome control center dont remember if I changed anything. I did add the following to /etc/sudoers hoyt ALL=(ALL) ALL I dont know what happened but here is the warnings & errors from XFree86.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > The all-privilege sudo is the best idea, since the actions are > > > audited. > > > > Though note that the auditing is there to keep the honest honest--surely > > the audit trail isn't trul

Re: help: email server

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:05, Miernik wrote: > On 2003-11-07, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > 4) Can the server host the firewall too? > > yes But I wouldn't suggest it. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROT

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:26, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every w

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:52 AM Subject: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- Help!) > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:36, BruceG wrote: > > Okay, I've got e

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can log in once, but as soon as you do the user gets locked > out. (passwd -l in .bashrc) Wouldn't work, since the person has root, and can therefore unlock the password. Maybe you could add it in bash's logout script, but that could be edited as

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:01:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"? > > Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something > that you prefer not to use. > > I prefer not to use proprietary, closed-source apps, but, when > necessary, will pay f

Re: Testing URIs not working

2003-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
> From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [teach to fish mode] Yes, by all means! > apt-cache search newbiedoc > newbiedoc Well, what is obvious to the experienced user, is something entirely new to the newbie. I realized that # aptitude search would search for uninstalled packages, but I did

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > > have one of my roommates do so

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:01:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"? > > > > Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something > > that you prefer not to use. > > > > I prefer not to u

newbiedoc error [Re: Testing URIs not working]

2003-11-07 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 01:04:25PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > apt-cache search newbiedoc > > newbiedoc I thought I'd read newbiedoc. The read a bit about runlevels (since I didn't know about them), the first thing I read is incorrect: file:///home/tom/usr/share/doc/newbiedoc/newbiedoc-html/

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > The all-privilege sudo is the best idea, since the actions are > > > > audited. > > > > > > Though note that the auditing is there to

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:20, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:52 AM > Subject: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- > Help!) > > > > On

Re: X wont start again

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:11, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > X was working fine. I looked at the configuration in the gnome control > center dont remember if I changed anything. I did add the following to > /etc/sudoers > hoyt ALL=(ALL) ALL > I dont know what happened but here is the warnings & errors from

Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with a trojan. The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Nov 7 05:31 .bash_history and I can't edit it or delete it. It

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