Re: Flat kitty problem

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:01:35 -0800 (PST), Cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologize for confusion here. I have an existing > email address of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I think it would be funny > to have people be able > to send me email to the address of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get it at m

Re: binding 2 or more IP addresses to one interface?

2004-11-16 Thread andreas . sumper
Sorry, I forgot to add: If you want the aliases to be loaded at boot - time, you have to add auto eth0:aliasnumber before each alias stanza into your /etc/network/interfaces e.g.: auto eth0:0 iface eth0:0 inet static        address 192.168.1.11        netmask 255.255.255.0 Bye, Andy [EM

Re: Flat kitty problem

2004-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:01 -0800, Cecil wrote: > I apologize for confusion here. I have an existing > email address of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I think it would be funny > to have people be able > to send me email to the address of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get it at my > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:33 +0100 Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? > > Thanks > Paul Also, look for the program Secpanel. gui scp program -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#:

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2004-11-16 Thread Nelson, Quinten Charles
I just bought an HP with an AMD 64 processor. It came w/ wireless keyboard/mouse. If I install debian stable or unstable will it have drivers for these or will I need a plugged in keyboard/mouse. -A Reasonably Confused newbie

openvpn

2004-11-16 Thread Emil Perhinschi
Hi! Has anybody tried openvpn, or have an idea how is it rated among vpn solutions? I need something that can have both linux and windows clients and which does not create many compatibility problems ... from my own tests openvpn would do nicely. thank you, Emil Per. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: openvpn

2004-11-16 Thread andreas . sumper
Emil Perhinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/11/2004 09:44:09 PM: > Hi! > > Has anybody tried openvpn, or have an idea how is it rated among vpn > solutions? > > I need something that can have both linux and windows clients > and which does not create many compatibility problems ... from m

Problem Installing Debian 3.0r1 on HP Visualize C3700 workstation

2004-11-16 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I am experimenting with Debian 3.0r1 and have a Visualize C3700 workstation. I have downloaded the HPPA images and have gone through the motions of installing the operating system. What happens is the following: I insert the CD into the system and interrupt the boot process. I then ru

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pascal Bonesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How about konqueror with the fish:// or nautilus with sftp:// protocoll? > > Or am I mistaken? Isn't that going through ssh and using scp? Sort of. Fish is a filesystem via ssh. Although for such things, I prefer using "shfs". -- Thomas A

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tuesday 16 November 2004 03:57 it was so written: > Hi, Good morning. > Interesting stuff you have written. Thank you. > I am raising this issue for personal reason. I am coming across > more and more positive reports about free software in the media. It'

Re: (unknown)

2004-11-16 Thread K-sPecial
Nelson, Quinten Charles wrote: I just bought an HP with an AMD 64 processor. It came w/ wireless keyboard/mouse. If I install debian stable or unstable will it have drivers for these or will I need a plugged in keyboard/mouse. -A Reasonably Confused newbie The wireless stuff should all be done

NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Christian Convey
My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. So consider my home situation: I'm running two computers, each with local security files. I h

Re: Problem Installing Debian 3.0r1 on HP Visualize C3700 workstation

2004-11-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:47:06PM -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I am experimenting with Debian 3.0r1 and have a Visualize C3700 workstation. I guess [EMAIL PROTECTED] might be more helpful than debian-user for this. Frank > I have downloaded the > HPPA images and have gone

lilo and mbr

2004-11-16 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.7, and successfully booted with the new kernel once. However, I had to compile the kernel again, to include some additional support. I cannot boot after compiling and installing the kernel the second time. I received a message during the configuration that mbr.b was

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:55:56PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > reporter and editor believe in. Thus their confusion about why Bin > Laden attacked the United States, for example, no matter how often or > clearly he states his reasons. This is a technical list, damn it. Keep your f**king politi

[part Solved] Re: udev not working properly anymore (?)

2004-11-16 Thread H. S.
H. S. wrote: I have a rules files for udev on updated Sarge and Sid systems. When I inserted my USB stick into the port or each computer, the icon did not appear on desktop. In Sarge, I had to mount the stick manually using the mount command and Sid just hanged. This problem came completely out

Re: lilo and mbr

2004-11-16 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
You should reinstall lilo after compiling...something like that: make clean && make all && make modules_install && lilo in order to update the mbr with the new kernel image configured in /etc/lilo.conf. bye Punit Ahluwalia wrote: I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.7, and successfully booted with the ne

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Packages

2004-11-16 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 14:19 schrieb Jim McQuillan: > Tom, > > First thing to consider is the fact that the .deb packages for LTSP are > quite old. Ragnar Wisloff is working on updated packages for debian, > but he's not ready to release them just yet. > > I suggest you go to http://www.

Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-16 Thread Matt Price
hi, I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by Xvfb. I initiate the X session with: Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 & This used to work fine. But sometime in the recent past, presumably since an unobserved update or something, I get this error when trying to connect

Re: lilo and mbr

2004-11-16 Thread K-sPecial
Punit Ahluwalia wrote: I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.7, and successfully booted with the new kernel once. However, I had to compile the kernel again, to include some additional support. I cannot boot after compiling and installing the kernel the second time. I received a message during the config

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 19:14 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > Hi, > > How about konqueror with the fish:// or nautilus with sftp:// protocoll? Newer versions of nautilus actually support direct ssh:// connections. I use it all the time at work since I can now bookmark folders on remote linux boxes. N

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote: > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > >>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acrobat reader and ps2dpf > > >>>as > > >>>follows: > > >>>1] I filled the form; >

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Rich Wellner
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:55:56PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> reporter and editor believe in. Thus their confusion about why Bin Laden >> attacked the United States, for example, no matter how often or clearly he >> states his reasons. > > This is a

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-16 Thread Jason Rennie
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:45:16PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > via82cxxx_audio21564 1 > > ac97_codec 13300 0 [via82cxxx_audio] > > uart401 6436 0 [via82cxxx_audio] > > sound 57480 0 [via82cxxx_audio uart401] > > soundcore

Re: file/package counter

2004-11-16 Thread K-sPecial
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Is there any package that enables one to count the number of files in a directory(s) and/or number of packages installed on a system. Thanks... Well to figure out how many files in a directory (not including directories and not including files in sub directories:

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:12:56PM -0600, Rich Wellner wrote: > Just as you did? ;-) Yes, just as I did. By the way, to swing this back on topic, inability to focus on software and getting distracted with too many unrelated topics dampens the appeal of Free Software. Just focus on software. N

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
At Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:26:43 -0800 (PST), Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > > > --- > Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with > > built-in firewall > > (according to manufacturers technical documentation) > > an

BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Ben Russo
(see below for long story background ) The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices (like 400GB each) can LVM bind them together into a larger single filesystem? ( I am aiming for 4-6 TB ) Is there

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:21:26PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > Background info:. > My employer has large amounts (10GB/day) of telecommunications > related billing data that in it's raw form is BIG (1-2GB ea) flat Just gzip each file down to < 1GB. B

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but > as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browser and > you will be generally ok. But F-Prot sucks by default because it is

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:21:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but > > as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browse

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Rick Friedman
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browser and you will be generally ok. But F-Prot sucks by default

Re: Help my deviant desire!

2004-11-16 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:28:18AM -0800, Cecil wrote: > Because of sheer boredom, I'd like to be able to setup > my linux box to be able to somehow route stuff in such > a way that email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ends > up in my linux box via fetchmail or maybe even kmail. > Am I lookng in the wro

RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Steven Jones
I am running clamav attached to sendmail, seems to pick up viruses and some phishes...very easy to set up. Adding clamav Firstly download and install the clamav packages with apt-get. clamav - Antivirus scanner for Unix clamav-base - Base package for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix clama

su: Permission denied, (Ignored)

2004-11-16 Thread martin f krafft
I have just encountered a weird message by /bin/su: master:/tmp# su -c id collector su: Permission denied (Ignored) uid=200(collector) gid=200(collector) groups=200(collector) root su's to the collector user (pam_rootok allows this), and the command is executed. But where do the messages

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an > NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) > be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home

Re: su: Permission denied, (Ignored)

2004-11-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.16.2251 +0100]: > strace says: The full strace is available at http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/su.strace.bz2 -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

linux source vs kernel-source

2004-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
I generally compile my own kernel using kernel-package and the kernel-source packages from the debian sites. But, at ftp.kernel.org are source files that are 2.6.9 vs 2.6.8. These files are labeled linux-2.6.9 vs kernel-source-2.6.8. My question is: are the linux-* source files modified when

Re: lilo and mbr

2004-11-16 Thread Punit Ahluwalia
I did reinstall lilo. When I reinstalled the kernel, I chose the option of wiping off the old lilo.config and making a new one. I ran lilo after that. Does not help. --- Riccardo Tortorici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should reinstall lilo after compiling...something like that: > make clean

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:24, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:12:56PM -0600, Rich Wellner wrote: > > Just as you did? ;-) > > Yes, just as I did. By the way, to swing this back on topic, inability > to focus on software and getting distracted with too many unrelated >

Re: linux source vs kernel-source

2004-11-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Dienstag, den 16.11.2004, 15:59 -0600 schrieb Russ Cook: > I generally compile my own kernel using kernel-package and the > kernel-source packages from the debian sites. But, at ftp.kernel.org > are source files that are 2.6.9 vs 2.6.8. > These files are labeled linux-2.6.9 vs kernel-source-2

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Keith O'Brien
Didn't know about fish I'll have to check it out. I use shfs to mount via ssh/scp. Only problem I have had is with large file listings (such as mp3 collections). Juk and rythmbox both seemed to crash when using an shfsmounted file system. http://shfs.sourceforge.net/index.html Keith. On Tue, 2

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:00 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- > Just gzip each file down to < 1GB. Buy a couple 200GB hard drives and put > them in an ordinary computer. Keep a years worth of data online. --snip-- On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:21:26PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: --snip-- > Please

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Jozsef Mak
From: Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Will Debian grow and stay? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:10:51 + On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:24, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:12:56PM -0600, Rich Wellner wrote: > > Just as you did? ;-) > > Yes, ju

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:21 -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > (see below for long story background ) > > The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was > unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices > (like 400GB each) can LVM bind them together into a la

Re: AMD 64 build absolutely necessary for install on Athlon 64?

2004-11-16 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:47:14 +0100 Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying for a few days here to boot my brand new Athlon 64 box on > a Sarge Installation CD. But since sarge is not yet ported to AMD 64 > (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status) > I tried IA 64

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:10:51PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Nobody wants to hear your opinion about George Bush in the context of > > Free Software. > > I do. > > Funny how few complained... America and Iraq and the whole lot of it doesn't have a single thing to do with Debian. The ori

Re: lilo and mbr

2004-11-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.7, and successfully booted with the new > kernel once. > However, I had to compile the kernel again, to include some additional > support. I cannot > boot after compiling and installing the kernel the s

Rythmnbox (was ssh GUI)

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:23:11PM -0500, Keith O'Brien wrote: > Didn't know about fish I'll have to check it out. I use shfs to mount > via ssh/scp. Only problem I have had is with large file listings (such > as mp3 collections). Juk and rythmbox both seemed to crash when using an > shfsmounted fi

shutdown won't shutdown

2004-11-16 Thread Paul Dufresne
I'm using grub instead of lilo. Do I append="apc=on" in the menu.lst file? And where specifically in the file do i add this? Wow, a question on this list that I know the answer. Guess I should answer fast before somenone else do. :-) Here is a part of my /boot/grub/menu.lst file: title

Re: NFS permissions question

2004-11-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on > an NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should > (ideally) be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home

sound driver

2004-11-16 Thread Jason Rennie
In short: I can't play ogg files on my Debian Sarge (2.4.27) machine, but I can if I boot off a Knoppix live CD (v3.6, kernel 2.4.27). i.e. the drivers I have installed on my Debian Sarge machine aren't working. I'd like to set things up to use the sound drivers that Knoppix uses, but I don't know

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:38, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:10:51PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Nobody wants to hear your opinion about George Bush in the context of > > > Free Software. > > > > I do. > > > > Funny how few complained... > > America and Iraq and

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:10:51 + Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:24, William Ballard wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:12:56PM -0600, Rich Wellner wrote: > > > Just as you did? ;-) > > > > Yes, just as I did. By the way, to swing this back on topic

Re: linux source vs kernel-source

2004-11-16 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:59:11PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Will the linux-* source files compile and build properly using > the kernel-package tools? Yes, they do. I use them on my own machines. I usually download the bz2 kernel and compile from there. I'm not sure what the debian patches to

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 04:41:10PM -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but > >>as earlier posters said, be sma

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:46:58PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Yes, OT is interesting, OT is fun. "All work and no play makes Jack a > dull boy," they used to say. That was before SATs and all that. But > now I am OOT. Or EMOT. OT isn't fun when it's controversial and about politics. OT is

Re: binding 2 or more IP addresses to one interface?

2004-11-16 Thread Ivan Wills
Ivan Wills wrote: Hi I want to set up apache with some virtual hosts with different IP addresses and only have one NIC in the machine. Does any know how to bind more than one IP address to a NIC? Thanks Ivan Thanks all for the help it works a treat Ivan -- ,###' *##/ Ivan Wills

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-16, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:21:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav >> instead. http://www.clamav.net/ > Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread John Hasler
richard writes: > Funny how few complained... Many of us just killfile anyone who posts about politics. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
the point you are missing will is that OT is not such an anathema to everyone as it is to you. The only thing that gets my goat on lists is when people complain about OT or ask people to take things off list. lists are first about community. The value of spontaneous community fosters the value

Re: Problem Installing Debian 3.0r1 on HP Visualize C3700 workstation

2004-11-16 Thread Jason Rennie
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:47:06PM -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > I am experimenting with Debian 3.0r1 and have a Visualize C3700 workstation. You might have better luck trying to install Sarge (testing): http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Use the "netinst CD image, with Debian b

unstable to testing

2004-11-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I was just looking at the sources.list file on our Debian server and I realized we had unstable sources. I would guess that I used unstable in order to get Samba 3, which maybe wasn't available in testing at the time. But I don't know. Anyhow, I would rather be using testing. So, is it rather p

RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Steven Jones
8>< > > But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus database is not maintained by an commercial entity working 24/7 on it. Nearly all commercial AV Vendors offer Li

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-11-16, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav >> instead. http://www.clamav.net/ > > Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal > use. That's not free. They just

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Brad Sims
Basically to do anything other than nuke /home/$user, you need root privileges, and if you have root; why bother with a virus. -- TIMTOWTDI often means there is more than one really bad way to do it. -- Tim Hammerquist after Tim Cuffel in comp.lang.perl.misc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

security updates

2004-11-16 Thread Rui Silva
i configured my apt sources.list by apt-setup and i said yes to the questions about a securityy source but when i run apt-get update it says that the site isn't there what is the line to put in my sources.list file??? i'm running unstable -- Rui Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux --

Re: linux source vs kernel-source

2004-11-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:01:26 -0600, Jeremy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:59:11PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > > Will the linux-* source files compile and build properly using > > the kernel-package tools? > > Yes, they do. I use them on my own machines. I usually do

Re: unstable to testing

2004-11-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I was just looking at the sources.list file on our Debian server and I realized we had unstable sources. I would guess that I used unstable in order to get Samba 3, which maybe wasn't available in testing at the time. But I don't know. Anyhow, I would rather be using testin

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
apparently you have no problem with topic drift Why do you speak of Free Software as if it is ADD? Human beings are multi-faceted. Free Software benefits from intellectual people who have many interests. I don't consider a statement that is received 50/50 for/against as a very good zinger

Re: security updates

2004-11-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rui Silva wrote: i configured my apt sources.list by apt-setup and i said yes to the questions about a securityy source but when i run apt-get update it says that the site isn't there what is the line to put in my sources.list file??? i'm running unstable There are no security updates for unstab

Re: security updates

2004-11-16 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rui Silva: > i configured my apt sources.list by apt-setup and i said yes to the questions > about a securityy source but when i run apt-get update it says that the site > isn't there > > what is the line to put in my sources.list file??? > > i'm running unstable I run stable. M

Re: security updates

2004-11-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:21:39 +, Rui Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i configured my apt sources.list by apt-setup and i said yes to the questions > about a securityy source but when i run apt-get update it says that the site > isn't there > > what is the line to put in my sources.list file?

Postfix + Amavis-new + ClamAV + SASL + Courier-(imap, imap-ssl, maildrop) problem.

2004-11-16 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I just got my system up and running (went from Mandrake to Debian) and i'm having problems getting Postfix to authenticate with saslauthd. This is on a "Testing"/"Sarge" system. To check that sasl is working, I used the testsaslauthd command: testsaslauthd -u my-username -p my-password

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 22:50 +, Juha Siltala wrote: > On 2004-11-16, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > >> instead. http://www.clamav.net/ > > > > Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(see below for long story background ) > >The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was >unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices >(like 400GB each) can LVM bind them toget

Re: unstable to testing

2004-11-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 02:14 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was just looking at the sources.list file on our Debian server and > I realized we had unstable sources. I would guess that I used > unstable in order to get Samba 3, which maybe wasn't available in > testing at the time. But I don't k

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-16 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:17:25 -0500, Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:45:16PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > via82cxxx_audio21564 1 > > > ac97_codec 13300 0 [via82cxxx_audio] > > > uart401 6436 0 [via82cxxx_audio] > > > s

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Curt Howland
William, I didn't mention Bush, or Iraq, or any of the things you mentioned. I didn't even get political. I said that reporters and editors tend to miscomprehend motivations that they do not share themselves, even when repeatedly informed of what those motivations are. I then cited a present-d

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-16 Thread John Hasler
Michael Z Daryabeygi writes: > lists are first about community. The value of spontaneous community > fosters the value in name. You can't have the latter without the former. Inflammatory political comments are divisive, and those who post them know it. > So now the community is biting back. Sp

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Ben Russo
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (see below for long story background ) The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices (like 400GB each)

Re: shutdown won't shutdown

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Vangel
You can also try loading the APM module (older, but it's the first thing I load whem I'm installing). I had this problem the first few times I installed and was going out of my mind. jwyman wrote: Hi. Nothing will seem to poweroff my PC. I have tried various commands, all with the same resul

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > didn't even get political. I said that reporters and editors tend to > miscomprehend motivations that they do not share themselves, even > when repeatedly informed of what those motivations are. I then cited > a present-day example

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:09:25 -0500 Michael Z Daryabeygi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing that gets my goat on lists is when people complain > about OT or ask people to take things off list. > lists are first about community. I have been hoping this wouldn't pop up in here. I recently

Postfix + SASL + Amavis-new + ClamAV + Courier-(imap, imap-ssl, maildrop) problems.

2004-11-16 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I just got my system up and running (went from Mandrake to Debian) and i'm having problems getting Postfix to authenticate with saslauthd. This is on a "Testing"/"Sarge" system. To check that sasl is working, I used the testsaslauthd command: testsaslauthd -u my-username -p my-password -f

aRTS, nforce3 and sarge

2004-11-16 Thread Sven Olsen
Title: Melding Hi   I installed sarge from weekly isos dated 25/10-2004 on a new computer with nforce3 chipset. Installed with default kernel 2.4.27 First only the the base packages, then x-window-system and finally kdebase.   Installed the kernel-headers  for the kernel and then the newest

Re: ftp servers out the wazoo

2004-11-16 Thread Ben Russo
Andrew Schulman wrote: There is a ridiculous oversupply of ftp servers in Debian: I want something simple, for anonymous access. I was going to use oftpd, which is an anonymous-only server; but it doesn't allow uploads. I like vsftpd It's config file mihgt look like: # lot's of comments

strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm running sarge, and just finished running "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade". All usually goes fine, except today. I'm now getting this error message; sudo aptitude upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing packa

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Freddy Freeloader
William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: didn't even get political. I said that reporters and editors tend to miscomprehend motivations that they do not share themselves, even when repeatedly informed of what those motivations are. I then cited a pr

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Rick Friedman
Juha Siltala wrote: On 2004-11-16, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal use. That's not free. The

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 18:48 -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > still wondering if there might be an option for a > compressed filesystem anyone?? NTFS? ;) Seriously, though, it's my und

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Riccardo Tortorici
Maybe is a bug... I've encountered it 10 minutes ago after an apt-get upgrade on "sid"... Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm running sarge, and just finished running "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade". All usually goes fine, except today. I'm now getting this error message; sudo aptitude upgra

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea how to correct this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up yo

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Vangel
I'm wondering... should I delay mine...? Riccardo Tortorici wrote: Maybe is a bug... I've encountered it 10 minutes ago after an apt-get upgrade on "sid"... Rodney D. Myers wrote: smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

zsh: weird variable expansion

2004-11-16 Thread martin f krafft
I have the following Z shell function: pub () { scp -q $@ albatross:public_html/scratch ssh albatross "cd public_html/scratch && chmod 0644 $@" } When I run it on multiple files, however, something weird happens: cirrus:/tmp> touch a b cirrus:/tmp> set -x cirrus:/tmp> pub a b + pub a b + scp

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
He didn't throw a stick of dynamite! His comment was about the media. not about politics. You  were just a ticking time bomb. You are so contradictory.  You claim that Curt was allowing the interpretation that Open Source is motivated by a Bin Laden like jihad against microsoft.  You were the o

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-16 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:47:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Inflammatory political comments are divisive, and those who post them know > it. vi is the bee's knees. Sod emacs. aptitude is rubbish. Stick to apt-get. Is that better? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving e

Re: Bizarre NFS Problem

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 08:45, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: > I know this is an old thread now, but I finally got a chance to try out > the above. And while I was very hopeful in that it might work it still > ended up with the same results. I don't know about everybody else but I > am

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-16 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
i was speaking for myself and those who commented that they didn't mind. I really don't think Curt was trying to be divisive? Are we really so fickle? Am I really not going to seek your help or value your opinion on debian if I think you are a political dolt? Come on people.  I don't care what

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 15 November 2004 19:39, Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall > (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use > it with my Debian box. > > I have noticed there i

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