Re: Risk of using Iceweasel / firefox [Was Re: GLIBC_2.4]

2007-11-01 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:28:55AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Doug writes: It would only be a security issue if the permissions on your home directory and/or the execs themselves allowed others to execute them. A buggy application (buffer

[Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Grossman
I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list. Jeff Original Message Subject:Re: Installing Packages From Source Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Nov 01,

Re: RFH: rt2570 -- RT2570 wireless network drivers

2007-11-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
Development of the rt2570 driver is nearly dead upstream - it is replaced by the rt2x00 drivers, but they may not yet work as well for everyone. There are unlikely to be any more official, well-tested, releases. None of the developers currently in the pkg-ralink group have access to devices suppo

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-01 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:09:07 -0800 Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > apt-get user waiting for a reason to change. Two problems I have with > aptitude are the lack of "source" functionality and my inability to spell > it as easily as apt-get. ;-) At least here, it's actually easier;

[Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Grossman
I accidentally replied to the sender and not the list. Jeff Original Message Subject:Re: Installing Packages From Source Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:43:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Nov 0

Re: Risk of using Iceweasel / firefox

2007-11-01 Thread John Hasler
Jim writes: > If both Iceweasel and Firefox have problemes, which browser should be > used in Debian? All software has bugs. I didn't mean to single out Firefox. It was just an example. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

"Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-01 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I googled for the answer and didn't find it, and lots of people asking, so this is for the next person with the same problem. I installed a Debian Etch workstation, tasksel: desktop, guided partitioning, the six partitions (/ /usr /var /home /tmp swap) way. Works great. I upgraded to Lenny, the O

Re: apt-get failing

2007-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
See if you can get out to google.com with your browser and if you do so, have your browser refresh the page and see if the google.com page comes up again. If it doesn't you've either got a modem needing updating or another internet connectivity problem. you could try dhclient -r && ifconfig e

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-01 Thread joseph lockhart
i'll through in my 2cts worth on this. i personally find that aptitude is a stronger program, especially for newer users, after using both, aptitude seems to keep the system cleaner with less loose ends and is less likely to break dependencies. at least that is my experience jwlockhart jwlockhart

Re: Debian on Core2Duo 64bit

2007-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:59:29 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:29:35PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > >> 2007/10/31, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Semih Gokalp wrote: > Hi. > > Which

Re: resolv.conf question

2007-11-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running Etch. My resolv.conf starts with the line: # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! and contains entries that I want to have new different values. I want to change the values in a way that last through a reboot, and I'd like to do it by editting a file using

dictd local server secure?

2007-11-01 Thread BartlebyScrivener
I've been on Etch for about a year. Still learning ins and outs. I installed the dictd server for local use only (I hope). I'm behind NAT router etc, but when I do nmap on local network, it says: Not shown: 1677 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 111/tcp open rpcbind 113/tcp open auth 2628/tc

Re: Etch 2.6.18-5-486 stable but 2.6.18-5-686 crashes on PIII SMP???

2007-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:04:12PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I am hoping that there might be some kernel experts out there that can > offer some suggestions as to what might be going wrong with the 686 > kernel, and which I might be able to try in order to resolve (or at least > explain) the p

Re: CD integrity checking failed

2007-11-01 Thread muthuraman.s
> what is the utility you use for the check, please? > > regards, > > -- > "L'essere è unito all'ente nello stesso modo in cui la vita è unita alla > morte" > Rashna > MIcaela Gallerini Hi, Thanks. I selected the option from the installation menu" Check CDROM integrity" which w

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:11:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > 5. > Now, anything else in the list are packages from stable that got > upgraded to unstable as part of installing gnomad2 (things that > gnomad2 required at a higher version than things in stable). >

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread DanKegel
On Nov 1, 2:10 pm, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried (paid for) Crossover Office sometime ago. MS Office worked mostly > but nothing else did, including iTunes, which was my main reason for > purchasing. For what it's worth, there's been progress on running iTunes 7 on Wine lately.

Re: GLIBC_2.4

2007-11-01 Thread Miles Bader
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See my other reponse to this thread. ~/bin at the front of $PATH is a > security risk. No it's not. It an attacker is able to install stuff in ~/bin, they can (and almost certainly would) also modify your .profile (etc) to change PATH themselves. -Miles

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-11-01 Thread steef
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-10-26 15:45:56, schrieb steef: Michelle Konzack wrote: However, I have riped all... *how* ? cdda2wav ...and leave it running up to the time when it exited normaly after writing 100 errors on my console. Thanks, Greetings and

Installing a promise ata 66 pci ide card

2007-11-01 Thread Sam
Hi all and thanks in advance, I have reached a storage conundrum, i have a dual p3 server 1gbit ram running off a 9 gig scsi as well as 4 ide hdd's totalling 1.5Terabytes. The problem is: I cannot afford scsi drives and i have used up all 4 ide slots. I am trying to plan for expansion, I happen to

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: >> I would like to write a bash script like the following one: >> >> for i in `some program that outputs a word list` >> do >> echo $i >> done >> >> where the word list can be ver

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:02:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:11:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > 5. > > Now, anything else in the list are packages from stable that got > > upgraded to unstable as part of installing gnomad2 (things that > >

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