Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:15:06 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:54:54AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > This is just the manifestation of a career CIA mentality torturing > > itself. > > George H.W. Bush was CIA director under Gerald Ford. Rummey was > Secretary

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I've received a number of suggesions for my X problem. Before I try > any of them I'd like to disable my graphical login screen. It is > either gpm or gdm. I can't remember which one is the login screen and > which is the console mou

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Minor nit: netatalk requires a device node in /var to support Appletalk > printing. Admittedly, for most people, this is not an issue. Not arguing, but what device node? Where? When did this start? What creates it? The package d

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:53:29PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > Two parties, sharing power, no difference between the two other than > name. I used to be like that, all mad at everybody. The internal assumption that validates it to yourself is "I could do it much better, if only..." Once I ha

libvorbis0-dev missing

2003-12-04 Thread Arash Bijanzadeh
It seems to me that libvorbis package is missing from the repository of sarge. Trying to install kdelibs4-dev depends on libvorbis0-dev in a tree that could not be satisfied. -- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > I don't know what you are talking about. I'm fucking with your head by appearing to argue with you while offering arguments that bolster what you believe :-) Bizarre, ain't it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:41:27PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is there a reason to use or not use dist-upgrade on Woody machines for > security updates? Is there a reason to not actually bother reading the man page for apt-get and learning the difference between the two targets? 'upgrade'

Re: Ethernet card not detected - where is YAST2 ?

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > My LINEX (Spanish Debian with 2.4.20 kernel) instaled ok, > but the ethernet card was not detected, so nothing (eth0) was instaled. > > "lspci -v" says "02.0c.0 MYSON Tech Inc : unknown device 0803". > > If I run "modprobe fealnx", it runs OK (lsmod

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:36:18PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Granted. But that's why I go to a real Taco Bell instead. Or, > politically speaking, why I was driven to socialism. You'll change. You're Echo Boomer. Your parents, the Baby Boomers, went from being WWII babies, to Hippies, to

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Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

2003-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:46:20AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:57:31 -0800 Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:14:17AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > > > > You can do 'apt-cache policy | less' and check that the priorities > > > assigned to the various source

Re: Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:06:25AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2003-12-04 06:03:33 +0900, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, at least partially. But I have the same problem as you: I didn't > > receive the acknowledgments, though I've just seen that they were > > sent, e.g. on > > > > http:/

status of "people" server?

2003-12-04 Thread Carsten Bleek
Hi, does anyone knows the status of the "people.debian.org" server? I know that it was taken off, cause of the compromitation of some debian servers, but this was 10 days ago. The Problem: I want to get a cyrus backport from: deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/cyrus/ Since 2 days I guess

Sound problems

2003-12-04 Thread nemesisdivina
Greetings: I kinda wondering what happen with my sound, the thing is that whenever I'm logged in as root the soun server work with out problem, but if I log off and login as a regular user the sound desapear, and I end up with no sound. Besides, did debian use the same policy as redhat did regard

xinerama 2 monitors help

2003-12-04 Thread kmark+debian-user
Hi Debianistas, I'm trying to setup 2 monitors. one is a isa t9680 (cirrus logic) - max 800x640 8bit and the other is a ati 1024x768 16 bit. I had the ati working and then I added the isa card. Ever since then, the isa is the only one recognized. I did a X -configure but it did not work 100% alt

Re: Sound problems

2003-12-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I kinda wondering what happen with my sound, the thing is that > whenever I'm logged in as root the soun server work with out problem, > but if I log off and login as a regular user the sound desapear, and I > end up with no sound. Check if

Re: Filters in Evolution

2003-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:37:18PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I have a strange problem in Evolution. I have defined a lot of filters > to move mails from my inbox to certain folders. This works great for > e.g. the debian-user mailinglist (every mail is moved to the folder > d

Re: Sound problems

2003-12-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031204 18:03]: > Greetings: > > I kinda wondering what happen with my sound, the thing is that whenever > I'm logged in as root the soun server work with out problem, but if I log > off and login as a regular user the sound desapear, and I end up with

Anfrage für einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: The lost cramfs patch (was: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises)

2003-12-04 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Benedict! On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:06:35AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Heh. Then it's kind of logical that i don't find any package ;) Well, It's simply that I don't know about a place for downloading it, but this doesn't necessarily mean there isn't any... ;) It's indeed mentioned tha

Re: Murdering those mutt-gpg key retrievals

2003-12-04 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brian! On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:45:16PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: Automatic key retrieval is nice, however it also makes for very slow mail reading if it's done inside of mutt. Has anyone set up procmail to prefetch unknown keys automatically? I thought I remembered some mention of thi

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:01:13 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:53:29PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > Two parties, sharing power, no difference between the two other than > > name. > > I used to be like that, all mad at everybody. The internal assumption > > t

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS

2003-12-04 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
That should help, I also found out from the LinuxPrinting page that my printer uses pnm2ppa, not hpijs. I had read tha hpijs part from some other FAQ. Thanks, Chris Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2003 00:23 schrieb Andrew Schulman: > > I'm having trouble getting my local printer working (HP Deskje

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:09:44 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > > I don't know what you are talking about. > > I'm fucking with your head by appearing to argue with you while offering > arguments that bolster what you belie

status of "people" server?

2003-12-04 Thread Carsten Bleek
Hi, does anyone knows the status of the "people.debian.org" server? I know that it was taken off, cause of the compromitation of some debian servers, but this was 10 days ago. The Problem: I want to get a cyrus backport from: deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/cyrus/ Since 2 days I guess

Re: xinerama 2 monitors help

2003-12-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kmark you need to define BOTH screen 0 and screen 1 - you probably want to uncomment your second screen 1 comment see below - basically you need to have: 2 screen definitions 2 device definitions "serverlayout" that calls out both screens - you can exper

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS

2003-12-04 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I assume you mean the FAQ from LinuxPrinting.org, which I had overlooked last night. Thanks. Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2003 02:04 schrieb Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra: > Em Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:47:37 +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler escreveu: > > a tip for what I can try next? > > F

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:15:29AM -0800: > > See, variously, the FHS, and my own partitioning guidelines: > > > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning > > Good page. I should

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:33:34AM -0700, Dr. MacQuigg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After reading the report at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.html > and following this newsgroup discussion, I have some very basic questions: > > 1) What is a "sniffed pas

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:16:48PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > Tommy boy, you haven't got what it takes to screw with my head. Okay. Just out of curiousity, are you older or younger than 30: those of us older can remember what the world was like when we were all pretty sure the nukes were gon

Re: Spam loads (was Re: How to post to linux.debian.user)

2003-12-04 Thread Dave
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:20:18 +0100, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:02:20PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, at 17:53 -0700, Dr. MacQuigg wrote: > >> > P.S. The requirement to use a real email address in t

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 17:18 Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade time > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > leaders and various murderous acts. The human body holds about five Fact: C

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Dave
Sorry for the duplicate post. The first one did not appear for a long time, and I assumed it was because I used the wrong email address. -- Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 14:14 Subject: Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications) > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 at 20:04 GMT, Tom penned: >

Re: SMTP setup question (Solved)

2003-12-04 Thread Anim Asante
> > -Original Message- > From: Debian User > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 December 2003 08:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SMTP setup question > > > i think you have to go under _advanced_ options for > the particular > user. there, you can select the stmp server you w

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:41:30AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Fact: Closer to 5 pints than 5 gallons. > > > > gallons of blood. A swimming pool holds about 25,000 gallons of fluid. > > > > Sorry, I forgot how my story goes: the human

Re: Broadcom 5703

2003-12-04 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:02:30 +1300, Sam Minnee wrote: > Hi all, > > > Has anyone had any experience using the Broadcom 5703 gigabit > ethernet chipset with Debian?  Is it stable? > > PS: It would be appreciated if you could respond to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sam I've had endless problems with thos

Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
Hi, I'm currently admin , and here we use RedHat distribution, but last tendencies of RedHat, told me that i must to change my Linux Distribution, i thought about Debian, wich is very popular, but i want to know if debian has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use apt,

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:29:04 -0800 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:16:48PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > Tommy boy, you haven't got what it takes to screw with my head. > > Okay. Just out of curiousity, are you older or younger than 30: those > > of us older can rem

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:11:28AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > s/servers being down/developer access being restricted/ > > The access restrictions are irrelevant. Developers can do anonymous > uploads. I did one last night. ...which means that upd

ALSA + KMix not working

2003-12-04 Thread Magnus von Koeller
Hi, I'm using ALSA for the first time ever (from 2.6.0-test11) and I've got it mostly up and working nicely now. I have the intel8x0 driver successfully loaded. alsamixer works fine and I can change the volume (and play sound, of course) in xmms. However, KMix does not work. It doesn't even sh

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Isaac To
> "Paul" == Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> With regard to your question 3, a buffer overflow exploit is Paul> always a stack exploit and is designed to execute arbitrary code Paul> with the called program's privilege. But this time it is an "integer overflow", not a

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: I've received a number of suggesions for my X problem. Before I try any of them I'd like to disable my graphical login screen. It is either gpm or gdm. I can't remember which one is the login screen and which is the console mouse driver. Anyway, I'm hoping that there is a lin

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Isaac To
> "Isaac" == Isaac To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Paul" == Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> With regard to your question 3, a buffer overflow exploit is Paul> always a stack exploit and is designed to execute arbitrary code Paul> with the called program's privil

Re: keys - Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread John Hasler
> i never did undestand why, people wanna run rootkits once they > got in Usually they want to use the rooted machine to send spam, run DoS bots, or to cover their trail while cracking other, more interesting machines. I agree that when cracking a DD's machine in order to get his Debian password

Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Dave
Whoever broke into the Debian servers did us a big favor by raising awareness without causing any serious damage. Seems like the critical link to be fixed is the vulnerability of daemons that run with root privilege and receive input from users.  The other links in the chain are inherently insecu

Re: Installing Printer - CUPS

2003-12-04 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Hurschler writes: Chris> I'm having trouble getting my local printer working (HP Chris> Deskjet 710C) . I'm running woody with KDE3.1.4. Chris> Chris> I've installed: cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-bsd Chris> cupsomatic-ppd a2ps mpage enscript Chris> cupsys-driver-gimpprint pnm2ppa f

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Isaac To
> "Dave" == Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Seems like the critical link to be fixed is the vulnerability of Dave> daemons that run with root privilege and receive input from users. No. The kernel itself has bug. The "user" (attacker) is running *perfectly legitimate* system

apt utilities and regexs (Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!)

2003-12-04 Thread Bill Goudie
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:56:03PM +, Chema wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:30:07 -0600 > Bill Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BG> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:26:22AM +, Chema wrote: > BG> > Anyway, apt-file works nice, but "zgrep file Contents-i386.gz" > BG> > works better! (note to apt-

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 01:09 Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade time > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > > I don't know what you are talking about. > > I'm fucking with

Pinning question

2003-12-04 Thread Rich B
One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable to my /etc/apt/sources file, and in /etc/apt/preferences I put: Package: * Pin: release stable Pin-priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release testing Pin-priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release unstable Pin-priority: 100 Now,

Re: OT: Successful thesis defense

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just wanted to let everyone know that on Monday morning I successfully defended my undergraduate honors thesis, entitled "Improving Computational Efficiency in Context-Based Reasoning Simulations." I submitted the final drafts te be bound yesterday and will graduate with hono

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 03.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 21:32: > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031203 08:08]: > > Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Joerg Johannes um 09:25: > > > I am starting Debian X environment using gdm, but after logging in, I > > > can't find ssh-agent in ps -ae. Only see it after

Attempt to access beyond end of device/Raid linear and 1

2003-12-04 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
I recently set up two 9 gig scsi drives on my machine. Discovered that an attempt to copy data from one array to another results in "I/O error. Attempt to access beyond end of device". Data copies to/from either raid array to/from a non-raid partition work properly. Googling found references

Re: ALSA + KMix not working

2003-12-04 Thread Danilo Raineri
Magnus von Koeller wrote: > Any ideas? Isn't KMix supposed to support alsa natively? Or should I > use the OSS mixer emulation? That doesn't seem right to me... Where did you read that KMix was supposed to support alsa natively? (Sincerely, I am curious: I would be glad if it was :) I fear it d

Re: ye olde upgrade vs. dist-upgrade

2003-12-04 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:13:22PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:41:27PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Is there a reason to use or not use dist-upgrade on Woody machines for > > security updates? > > Is there a reason to not actually bother reading the man page for apt-ge

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:12:24AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > The actions of a typical 13 year old. Well, old man, you ain't doing much better. At least I'm trying shit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:39:10AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, Thomas: Fragen Sie bitte auf englisch an diese Liste, oder frage an den debian-user-de Liste http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-de/ Danke! > ich bitte Sie zu pr?fen, ob e

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Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:05:25AM +0600, Satyajit Das wrote: > > 1) I want to upgrade complete Debain system, such as : > I have mutt-1.3 /need 1.4 or1.5 , kde-2.2/ need 3.x / and > kernel-2.2.20-idepci/ need 2.4.x >Please give me the details webaddress or ftp site. I'm using broadban

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:57:10AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:11:28AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Karsten M. Self writes: | > > s/servers being down/developer access being restricted/ | > | > The access restrictions are irrelevant. Developers

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-04 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > The access restrictions are irrelevant. Developers can do anonymous > uploads. I did one last night. Karsten writes: > ...which means that updates *are* being made? Uploads are being made. They don't appear to be being processed yet. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) D

Re: these fonts are making me go crazy

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bill Moseley wrote: Why the #$%* can't the font installation and setup be a bit easier? I would not have put it so nicely! ;) I finally got my fonts looking better on one of my machines that's been driving me NUTS for about a year (debian-user is littered with my pleas for help with fonts). This

I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear list, Just today I entire this world and also in Linux world. I'm single user. I collect Debian 3.0 beta , total 8 CD's . After struggle 4 days("dselect" very difficult for newbies) I installed Debian. Now wants to know or need suggestion from all users. Please -- please help. ( NB: I also

Re: missing URL

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom Allison wrote: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/ I don't know if this is still a known problem, it probably is, but this URL is missing. I only bring this up because the rest of the server seems to have some presence on the Internet. I'm really curious to see what developmen

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Isaac writes: > And then, due to the kernel bug, the user can write into arbitrary > location in the kernel, do whatever he wants. It's rather more complicated than that. The user reportedly must do some pretty subtle stuff to get root via the brk() bug. That's why the kernel developers thought

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:46:12 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann escreveu: > i want to know if debian > has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use > apt Which is much better than up2date. > how long did debian keep support?, RedHat keep releasing uptades for > 5 years f

Re: base64 translation

2003-12-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:09:39AM -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: | I'm trying to decode an applefile ppt that is in base64 coding. I have | read that there is a utility base64-decode that might work? Yes, use the base64-decode program to decode base64 data. (unless you have it in an email or so

Creating VCD from AVI

2003-12-04 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I have some AVI files here, which are riped from my DVDs using acidrip (a frontend to mencoder). Now I want to write to a CD as a VCD, so that they don't took space on my hard. My googling shows that there are a couple of tools I should use. mjpegtools, vcdimager, cdrdao etc. Howeve

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread csj
On 3. December 2003 at 5:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031203 16:59]: > > I have been wondering about the password-sniffing thing, too. > > If you send a password using ssh, isn't it encrypted? > > > > I suppose some debian develope

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:14:03PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:46:12 -0300, Mariano Wahlmann escreveu: > > > i want to know if debian > > has the an automatic update tool (like up2date), i read that debian use > > apt > > Which is much bette

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've received a number of suggesions for my X problem. Before I try > any of them I'd like to disable my graphical login screen. It is > either gpm or gdm. I can't remember which one is the login screen and > which is the console mouse driver. gdm is

Re: Ethernet card not detected - where is YAST2 ?

2003-12-04 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastia Altemir) writes: > My LINEX (Spanish Debian with 2.4.20 kernel) instaled ok, > but the ethernet card was not detected, so nothing (eth0) was instaled. > > "lspci -v" says "02.0c.0 MYSON Tech Inc : unknown device 0803". > > If I run "modprobe fealnx", it runs OK (lsmod d

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:40:42PM +0800, csj wrote: > Now I'm curious: is it possible to get rooted while on dialup? Sure. An ip address is an ip address. It's just slower. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sending mail with mutt+exim4 takes a long time when not connected

2003-12-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:09:30PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: | When my laptop isn't connected to the internet it takes about 10-15 | seconds when trying to send mail with exim4 (through mutt) until the | mail gets cued. | Is it possible to do this in the background so that mutt wont hang? Put

Re: Gentoo compromised too

2003-12-04 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:29:34PM -0800, Tom wrote: > Gentoo has now had a security issue too (as I'm sure you know). I didn't know of a particular security issue with Gentoo, actually. And since you haven't provided a reference or a link to any actual information, I can't say as I really know

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:15:12AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > ... That's why the kernel > developers thought it was just an ordinary bug: they could see no way to > exploit it. That statement is somewhat disconcerting. The hypothesis is that many eyes detect secure bugs, and here is clear cas

Re: Recognizing URL's in Mutt

2003-12-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:00:34AM -0500, Michael W. Cole wrote: | I am using mutt with vim as the editor. I have seen in the past where | the url's on a line in xterm will be underlined when the mouse moves | over it. You could then double click the mouse and the web browser | would open that ur

changing from xdm to kdm

2003-12-04 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am on debian testing/unstable. I have built this up from a base install of woody then upgraded and then installed first X and then KDE. On startup, I get the xdm screen. How do I change this to the kde login screen. thanks, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linuxer. Mum

loading ide-scsi at bootup

2003-12-04 Thread Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.
I am using debian testing/unstable with kde. I have a CDRW/DVD combo on hdd. I have added the line "append hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. The ide-scsi module is not beingloaded at boot up. How do I go about setting it so that it is loaded at startup. I am a recent migrant from RedHat and this was al

Re: Gentoo compromised too

2003-12-04 Thread Ken Gilmour
Replying to the message sent by ScruLoose on Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:42:37 -0500, received at 16:55:09 on 04/12/2003. ScruLoose wrote: >On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:29:34PM -0800, Tom wrote: > >> Gentoo has now had a security issue too (as I'm sure you know). > >I didn't know of a particular security iss

Re: Gentoo compromised too

2003-12-04 Thread Tom
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:42:37AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:29:34PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > Gentoo has now had a security issue too (as I'm sure you know). > > I didn't know of a particular security issue with Gentoo, actually. > > And since you haven't provided a ref

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Florian Ernst
Oooops. IMVHO better no response at all, this "Thomas" offers link exchange to get a better page rank at google and yahoo, but both URLs he mentions appear to be part of link farms and connected to the infamous alexa. Sorry for not having posted earlier. Cheers, Flo PS: Fullquote for reference On

Re: Gentoo compromised too

2003-12-04 Thread Florian Ernst
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:42:37AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:29:34PM -0800, Tom wrote: Gentoo has now had a security issue too (as I'm sure you know). I didn't know of a particular security issue with Gentoo, actually. And since you haven't provided a reference or a link

Re: Help with move to CUPS

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:56, R Ransbottom wrote: > I starting to do an upgrade on a small network of > debian systems. Moving from 1.3 to 3.0. > > It seems like time to replace lpr with CUPS. I have been having quite a lot of fun hacking on cups lately, it's good stuff. > I am having a problem

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:00:28AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Thomas: Fragen Sie bitte auf englisch an diese Liste, oder frage an den > debian-user-de Liste Karsten, you realise what you replied to was spam, right? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson

Maildrop + SA

2003-12-04 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a server with qmail + vpopmail + spamassassin + maildrop. My maildrop use spamc to mark spam and move it to other dir. So, I would like send spams (witch my SA didn't catch) to e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and my maildrop use sa-learn in this e-mail. How can I do that in my maildrop??? I t

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:46:12AM -0300, Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > Hi, I'm currently admin , and here we use RedHat distribution, but last > tendencies of RedHat, told me that i must to change my Linux > Distribution, i thought about Debian, wich is v

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread H. S.
Satyajit Das wrote: Dear list, Just today I entire this world and also in Linux world. By "this world" I would assume the newsgroup world and *this* world in general :)) welcome to Linux world! I'm single user. I collect Debian 3.0 beta , total 8 CD's . After struggle 4 days("dselect" very di

Re: PATH statement in X

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 07:50, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Mark Roach wrote: > > > you should really check here first: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=kdm%20path Less than a minute's worth of > > research turned up kdmrc as the source of the kdm path. > > Not that simple. Neither UserPath nor Sys

Util-Linux source problem

2003-12-04 Thread Dale Amon
I'm trying to recompile util-linux source under a sarge dist and it's failing. Same source as I used only days ago so I suspect something in an upgrade caused the problem. I've used source both from upstream and via apt-get. The only thing that changes is in which .c the error shows up first. The

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread Johannes Zarl
On Thursday 04 December 2003 17:43, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:15:12AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > ... That's why the kernel > > developers thought it was just an ordinary bug: they could see no way > > to exploit it. > > That statement is somewhat disconcerting. The hypothesis is

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 07:10 Subject: Re: Kernel upgrade time > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:41:30AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0800, Tom wrot

Re: Creating VCD from AVI

2003-12-04 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > I have some AVI files here, which are riped from my DVDs using acidrip > (a frontend to mencoder). Now I want to write to a CD as a VCD, so that > they don't took space on my hard. > > My googling shows that there are a couple of tools I should use. > mjpegtool

Re: libvorbis0-dev missing

2003-12-04 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Arash! On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:37:09AM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh wrote: It seems to me that libvorbis package is missing from the repository of sarge. Trying to install kdelibs4-dev depends on libvorbis0-dev in a tree that could not be satisfied. Hmm, on "my" Sarge kdelibs4-dev doesn't de

Re: loading ide-scsi at bootup

2003-12-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am using debian testing/unstable with kde. I have a CDRW/DVD combo > on hdd. I have added the line "append hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. The > ide-scsi module is not beingloaded at boot up. How do I go about > setting it so that it is

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mariano Wahlmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031204 05:46]: > Hi, I'm currently admin , and here we use RedHat distribution, but last > tendencies of RedHat, told me that i must to change my Linux > Distribution, i thought about Debian, wich is very popular, but i want > to know if debian has the an aut

Re: changing from xdm to kdm

2003-12-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am on debian testing/unstable. I have built this up from a base > install of woody then upgraded and then installed first X and then > KDE. On startup, I get the xdm screen. How do I change this to the kde > login screen. You can us

Re: loading ide-scsi at bootup

2003-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: I am using debian testing/unstable with kde. I have a CDRW/DVD combo on hdd. I have added the line "append hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. The ide-scsi module is not beingloaded at boot up. How do I go about setting it so that it is loaded at startup. I am a recent mig

Re: loading ide-scsi at bootup

2003-12-04 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I am using debian testing/unstable with kde. I have a CDRW/DVD combo on > hdd. I have added the line "append hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf. The > ide-scsi module is not beingloaded at boot up. How do I go about setting > it so that it is loaded at

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