Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:11:43PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in > various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or > links or some other text browser to dump html messages to plain text > for vie

Re: configuration of a linux router

2008-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:40:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > My LAN has a Debian router, joule, and two subordinate > machines, curie and heaviside. The three connect to an > old Linksys 10Base-T hub. joule connects to a > cable modem through a second NIC and runs > ipmasq.

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:07:55PM +, steef wrote: > > maybe of some interest in a general sense > > ip_watch > Free, Open Software Supporters Advocate Against Microsoft Document > Standard > > http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=941 And this is news for you? Where have yo

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Douglas, after rereading the ATX12V specification I have some questions as non-native english speaker... :-) Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > So the only trick for your design is what plugs from the PSU are on > which 12V bus. Here's the breakdown: Right... In the ATX

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Douglas, Am 2008-02-27 20:52:19, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > Here are the wire sizes according to my copy of the 2002 Canadian > Electrical cord (still in force), table 12 "Allowable Ampacity of > Flexible Cord and Equipment Wire (Based on Ambient Temperature of 30C" > Note that cables of 4

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread Peter Teunissen
On Mon, March 3, 2008 06:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: >> Are there other ways to make the files available on my dmz other than >> nfs. > > (sorry for the double answer) > > perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less compl

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > It's called social engineering. > """want free porn?!? compile this!""" > > You'd be surprised how many Windows users install .exes with the hope > of seeing some free porn. Compile? wget http://pr0n.sh/ | sh -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:55:57AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > It might be possible to unzip the file with the 7z utility, contained in > the p7zip-full package. If the following page is correct Linkname: zip/unzip - file too big - LinuxQuestions.org http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > For that to work, various helper apps would have to be run as root or > with root privileges. Normally i would not suspect a pic or other > 'data' to try and be executable anyway. By definition, if your user can send mail, your can serv

GDM Segment fault error 6

2008-03-03 Thread stephane lepain
Hi, Have you guys had this error before ? *gdm[3409]:segfault at 00080069df68 rip 28e8fc4fd1f rsp 7fff1df976b0 error 6. * This error shows at restart and shutdown times. I don't know what it means and most of all I haven't got a clue on how to solve it. Though, it doesn't affect

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-03 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:58:47 +0530 Bipin Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However there is something I came across few months back and is quite > close to being called my second favorite desktop distribution > (nothing like Debian) and in my opinion probably might get the buy-in > of the so calle

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 29 Feb at 1:21 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello Douglas, > > Am 2008-02-27 20:52:19, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > Here are the wire sizes according to my copy of the 2002 Canadian > > Electrical cord (still in force), table 12 "Allowable Ampacit

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread steef
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:07:55PM +, steef wrote: maybe of some interest in a general sense ip_watch Free, Open Software Supporters Advocate Against Microsoft Document Standard http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=941 And this is n

Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread hce
Hi, What is the command of growisofs to burn MPEG video to a DVD+R RW disk? I can burn data ISO file to the DVD+R, not sure what is the difference to burn a MPEG video file. Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > It's called social engineering. > > """want free porn?!? compile this!""" > > > > You'd be surprised how many Windows users install .exes with the hope > > of seeing som

[solved] Log messages on console (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-03-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few >>> seconds >>> the following message appears: >>> >>> NET: Registered protocol family 10 >>> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions >>> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 29/02/08 19:38, wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:01:49 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Florian Kulzer on 28/02/08 13:53, wrote: [...] Since you want to be independent of the desktop environment, you might want to run ivman, usbmount, or a similar daemon. If I remember correctly,

Re: Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread steef
hce wrote: Hi, What is the command of growisofs to burn MPEG video to a DVD+R RW disk? I can burn data ISO file to the DVD+R, not sure what is the difference to burn a MPEG video file. Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim guess you have growisofs installed. in that case: do < $man growisofs >

Re: [solved] Log messages on console (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:28:53AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >>> Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few > >>> seconds > >>> the following message appears: > >>> > >>> NET: Registered protocol

Re: Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread hce
On 3/3/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the command of growisofs to burn MPEG video to a DVD+R RW > > disk? I can burn data ISO file to the DVD+R, not sure what is the > > difference to burn a MPEG video file. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Kind Regards

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:08:37PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > > It's called social engineering. > > > """want free porn?!? compile this!""" > > > > > > You'd be surp

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market! richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is dvips: Could not find figure file /home/richard/foo/bar.eps; continuing The graphics files are still

Re: Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread steef
hce wrote: On 3/3/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: > Hi, > > What is the command of growisofs to burn MPEG video to a DVD+R RW > disk? I can burn data ISO file to the DVD+R, not sure what is the > difference to burn a MPEG video file. > > Thank you. > > Kind Regards,

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: >--} I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics > called --} with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, > and have --} '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is >--} dvips: Could not find

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-03-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > This link appeared on gmail page. Kind of Micro$oft about Micro$oft > propaganda. Nice one ;o) > > http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/getthefacts/default.mspx And I knew for sure: that airline went bankrupt... -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:51:47AM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > On Mon, March 3, 2008 06:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less complex and so safer > > than the portmap/nfsd deamons) web server on the machine hawing the > > files, plus a reverse pr

Re: X restarted

2008-03-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun March 2 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I was sitting here reading my mail, then all of a sudden my screen went > > blank, the NVIDIA logo came up, and it took me to the login window, but > > with my wifes login populated. > > was she previously logged in on vt8? maybe her session die

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is > dvips: Could not f

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:19:59 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and clic

Re: Burn DVD - RW

2008-03-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
hce wrote: On 3/3/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: > Hi, > > What is the command of growisofs to burn MPEG video to a DVD+R RW > disk? I can burn data ISO file to the DVD+R, not sure what is the > difference to burn a MPEG video file. > > Thank you. > > Kind Regards, >

Pre existing packages for Xen with Nvidia?

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Watson
Are there some pre patched and ready to go Xen kernels and Nvidia drivers that will work together? Version: lenny/sid Nvidia Gforce 6200 -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:07:55PM +, steef wrote: maybe of some interest in a general sense ip_watch Free, Open Software Supporters Advocate Against Microsoft Document Standard http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=941 And this is n

Re: GDM Segment fault error 6

2008-03-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
stephane lepain wrote: > Hi, > > Have you guys had this error before ? > > *gdm[3409]:segfault at 00080069df68 rip 28e8fc4fd1f rsp > 7fff1df976b0 error 6. * What distribution --- stable/testing/unstable? What is the version of gdm you are using? raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: GDM Segment fault error 6

2008-03-03 Thread stephane lepain
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi a écrit : stephane lepain wrote: Hi, Have you guys had this error before ? *gdm[3409]:segfault at 00080069df68 rip 28e8fc4fd1f rsp 7fff1df976b0 error 6. * What distribution --- stable/testing/unstable? What is the version of gdm you are using? raju

ATI Radeon X1400 + Debian Etch + Compiz Fusion = White Screen

2008-03-03 Thread Carlos Parada
Hello, I'm trying to install Compiz Fusion on my Debian 4.0 Etch machine but It has been completely impossible so far... I've got a annoying white screen every time I ran it. My graphics card is a ATI Radeon X1400 and I've installed the latest ATI proprietary driver for it from ATI website. The ou

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:41AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:07:55PM +, steef wrote: > > > >>maybe of some interest in a general sense > >> > >>ip_watch > >> > > > > > >> Free, Open Software Supporters Advocate Against Microsof

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know about trademarks. I know about property laws. I know of contract laws. I am not aware of any intelectual property laws. "intellectual property law" = patent law + copyright law + trademark law + some related

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:07:17 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:41AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:07:55PM +, steef wrote: > > > > > >>maybe of some interest in a general sense > > >> > > >>ip_

Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread Carlos Parada
Can you recommend any program for displaying machine's hardware on Debian? Thanks

Re: Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread Γιώργος Μιχαλογιωργάκης
Στις Δευτέρα 03 Μάρτιος 2008 16:52, ο/η Carlos Parada έγραψε: > Can you recommend any program for displaying machine's hardware on > Debian? lshw is very useful. You have to run it as root. There is a graphical tool as well, lshw-gtk. Giorgos

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread David Fox
On 3/2/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'd be surprised how many Windows users install .exes with the hope > of seeing some free porn. One word: PornBuntu. World domination,. :) > > Dotan Cohen > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread David Fox
On 3/3/08, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By definition, if your user can send mail, your can serve as a spam > zombie. True enough. The one time that happened to me I had installed some extra apache packages that were vulnerable, so some spammer basically was able to hijack my box, a

Re: Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Carlos Parada wrote: > Can you recommend any program for displaying machine's hardware on Debian? Here is a list of things I gathered over couple of years. cat /proc/cpuinfo -- displays info about your processor cat /proc/meminfo -- displays info about your memory ls -al /proc/kcore -- to s

Re: ATI Radeon X1400 + Debian Etch + Compiz Fusion = White Screen

2008-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Carlos Parada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to install Compiz Fusion on my Debian 4.0 Etch machine but > It has been completely impossible so far... I've got a annoying white screen > every time I ran it. > > My graphics card is a ATI Radeon X1400 and I've installed

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True enough. The one time that happened to me I had installed some > extra apache packages that were vulnerable, so some spammer basically > was able to hijack my box, and send stock and other spams out. I was > able to get it stopped but the cl

Re: Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread Michael Shuler
On 03/03/2008 10:18 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Here is a list of things I gathered over couple of years. cat /proc/cpuinfo -- displays info about your processor cat /proc/meminfo -- displays info about your memory ls -al /proc/kcore -- to see how much ram is installed df -h

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread cothrige
Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know about >> trademarks. I know about property laws. I know of contract laws. I >> am not aware of any intelectual property laws. >> > "intellectual property law" = pa

Re: Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread YS Lee
On 03/03/2008, Carlos Parada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you recommend any program for displaying machine's hardware on Debian? > > Thanks > lsscsi - list SCSI devices (or hosts) and their attributes -- YS Lee

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in > > various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or > > links or some other text

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:02:01PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > > with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > >

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:52:17PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: > >--} I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics > > called --} with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, > > and have --} '\usepackage

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > If the export would be r/o, what would be the risk of such a setup? I don't know their current status off the top of my head, but I seem to recall nfs/portmapper having a somewhat questionable early security history. They may be c

Re: Displaying hardware devices on Debian.

2008-03-03 Thread Carlos Parada
Thanks for your answers. Now I have a lot of commands to give a try ;)

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:41:33PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Thanks for the investigation! If mc obtains the list without full > decompression that is very good news. I will try it once I get my hand > on that file. I am still trying to figure out a way to get it (trying > to log in and

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:06:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 29 Feb at 1:21 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > AWG Amp === 26 1 242 223 204 186 16 > > > 8 1417 > > > > This AWG thing is nice, since

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:55:36PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they > > were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time. > > I wonder how compressible they are. Well, I suppose it depends on what's on it. I just tried a

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:30:43PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > after rereading the ATX12V specification I have some questions as > non-native english speaker... :-) > > Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > So the only trick for your design is what plugs from the PSU are on >

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:23:34PM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:51:47AM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On Mon, March 3, 2008 06:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less complex and so safer > > > than the portmap/nf

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:28:16 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 29/02/08 19:38, wrote: [...] >> To get you started, here is an example of a HAL device information file >> that requests the mount options "noatime" and "sync" for all partitions >> on removable media (change this to re

Re: Digikam - Camera not recognized correctly

2008-03-03 Thread Chris
On Saturday 01 March 2008, David Fox wrote: > On 2/28/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May be irrelevant, but I just got an FE-340, and gphoto2 (which > > digikam uses to take to the camera) sees it perfectly in MTP (is > > that the same as PTP?) mode. In "storage" mode, gphoto2 think

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:47:01 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: > > > On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisouno

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:02:44AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>> Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I hav

Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Brian
Hi, I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK: echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; echo "Data received = $E Bytes"; } The following does not (the value is empty): echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; } echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty I assume it has somet

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:48:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: > Hi, > > I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK: > > echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; echo "Data received = $E Bytes"; } > > The following does not (the value is empty): > > echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; } > ec

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:24:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/03/2008, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True enough. The one time that happened to me I had installed some > > extra apache packages that were vulnerable, so some spammer basically > > was able to hijack my box, and send

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; } > echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty { read A B C D E F; } < <( echo "$teststring" ) echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Wouldn't a chrooted ftp server do the same thing? ftp is a intrinsecally more complex protocol than http (see the problems for firewalls with active/passive ftp; see the bounce scan possibilities of the protocol, so that even th

Virtual Dedicated Server based on Debian Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Debian Users I am searching for a virtual server/rootserver. I prefer a Xen instance, but also vservers are acceptable. Will be host a small Wiki - nothing mission critical. Here my criteria - - about 20 $ monthly - - payable with Credit Card or

Re: Virtual Dedicated Server based on Debian Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:04:30PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Debian Users > > I am searching for a virtual server/rootserver. I prefer a Xen instance, > but also vservers are acceptable. Will be host a small Wiki - nothing > mission

Exim4 - local mail deliveries

2008-03-03 Thread Felix Karpfen
Since switching to Debian Etch, I no longer get messages (from cron and logcheck) delivered to my user-mailbox. Exim 4 delivers them to the mail-queue in /var/spool/exim4/input; when the queue is emptied, they appear to end up in /dev/null. The following uncovered advice in "man update-exim4.conf:

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-03 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: | Hi | | I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia | driver. | | | I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option | for 4:3 or 16:9 | | I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for wat

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:06:43AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sql injections are 'data' trying to be executable, aren't they? I know > > that generally folks aren't trying to "open" sql "attachements" > > (whatever the hell

Re: Virtual Dedicated Server based on Debian Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Mitchell Smith
You might like to consider visiting www.webhostingtalk.com and viewing the Web Hosting Offers -> VPS Offers forum. Generally a lot of VPS hosting providers will advertise there. Personally I used BigVPS who offer Debian Etch, and have been extremely reliable for me. Good luck. - Origina

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:21 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is > dvips: Could not find figure fi

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Georg Neis
Brian wrote: > The following does not (the value is empty): > > echo "$teststring" | { read A B C D E F; } > echo "Data received = $E Bytes" <--- $E is empty > > I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in > a subshell. Yes. > So how can I extract the parts I want

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-03-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:21:50PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > This link appeared on gmail page. Kind of Micro$oft about Micro$oft > > propaganda. Nice one ;o) > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/getthefacts/default.mspx > > And I knew for sure: that airlin

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think > we're in agreement that lack of root access only an impediment, not a > preventative. I'd so like to take that out of context. I won't be lewd in a public mailing list. Won't be lewd. Must... Control... Self... Dotan C

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread H.S.
Richard Lyons wrote: I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is dvips: Could not find figure file /home/richard/foo/bar.eps; continuing The

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:21:07AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Douglas, > > Am 2008-02-27 20:52:19, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > Here are the wire sizes according to my copy of the 2002 Canadian > > Electrical cord (still in force), table 12 "Allowable Ampacity of > > Flexible Cord and

basic gnome question

2008-03-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Does gnome itself have any prerequisite packages? In one tutorial I read about x-window-system-core being one of them and am curious to know if this still holds true for lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Telaman Consultancies
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: microsoft vs opensource Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:52:51 -0600 >Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know >a

Re: basic gnome question

2008-03-03 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Jude DaShiell wrote: Does gnome itself have any prerequisite packages? In one tutorial I read about x-window-system-core being one of them and am curious to know if this still holds true for lenny. Gnome certainly requires the X libs. It also requires Gtk+ and assorted libs. Not to mention a

Re: basic gnome question

2008-03-03 Thread Schiz0
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does gnome itself have any prerequisite packages? In one tutorial I read > about x-window-system-core being one of them and am curious to know if > this still holds true for lenny. > > > You can just check packages.debia

hplip cannot be removed

2008-03-03 Thread Rainer Lehmann
Hi, how could I possibly remove the packet hplip in Etch while getting error messages like these? # aptitude remove hplip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Buildin

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:08:35PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > >with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > >'\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is > >dvips: Cou

Re: hplip cannot be removed

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:14:20PM +, Rainer Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > how could I possibly remove the packet hplip in Etch while getting > error messages like these? > > # aptitude remove hplip > Reading package lists... Done ... > Writing extended state information... Done > (Reading databas

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:20:04AM +0900, Telaman Consultancies wrote: > > > Original Message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: microsoft vs opensource > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:52:51 -0600 > > >Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>

Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Juan Seet
Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get the following message: Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 00 00 75 70 48 c1 ea 08 48 8d b3 18 10 00 console shuts up ... <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! System data: Processor: DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 21

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:50:15PM -0300, Juan Seet wrote: > Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get > the following message: > Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 00 00 75 70 48 c1 ea 08 48 8d b3 18 10 00 > console shuts up ... > <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing inte

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:59:24PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think > > we're in agreement that lack of root access only an impediment, not a > > preventative. > > I'd so like to take that out of context. I won't be lewd in

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Juan Seet
2008/3/3, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:50:15PM -0300, Juan Seet wrote: > > Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get > > the following message: > > Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 00 00 75 70 48 c1 ea 08 48 8d b3 18 10 00 > > console sh

Re: SOLVED: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:18:03PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:21 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > > with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > > '\us

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Juan Seet
2008/3/3, Juan Seet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/3/3, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:50:15PM -0300, Juan Seet wrote: > > > Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get > > > the following message: > > > Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 0

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Any idea? Thanks for your time. > > You don't say if this is Sarge, Etch, Lenny, or Sid. Its important. > He did (look in the subject line) say that it was on Etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Georg Neis
Juan Seet wrote: > I can't find the debian-boot list, maybe you meant > http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/ ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread cothrige
"Telaman Consultancies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > The ever persistent issue of software patents for example, when > dealing with programming - which is essentially a language - and > shouldn't, as a means of transmission of knowledge, even have > copyright attached to it. Doesn't this pro

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
cothrige wrote: "Telaman Consultancies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... The ever persistent issue of software patents for example, when dealing with programming - which is essentially a language - and shouldn't, as a means of transmission of knowledge, even have copyright attached to it.

Re: Kernel panic installing Etch

2008-03-03 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 03 March 2008 23:50, Juan Seet wrote: > Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get > the following message: > Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 00 00 75 70 48 c1 ea 08 48 8d b3 18 10 00 > console shuts up ... > <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handl

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool]

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
--- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/02/08 19:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller >>> will do just fine. Simply

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